Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

He wondered why the pelican was the symbol of charity, except it was that it wanted a good deal of charity to admire a pelican.

The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.

When people talk as if the Crusades were nothing more than an aggressive raid against Islam, they seem to forget in the strangest way that Islam itself was only an aggressive raid against the old and ordered civilization in these parts. I do not say it in mere hostility to the religion of Mahomet; I am fully conscious of many values and virtues in it; but certainly it was Islam that was the invasion and Christendom that was the thing invaded.

There is only one thing that stands in our midst, attenuated and threatened, but enthroned in some power like a ghost of the Middle Ages: the Trade Unions.

The modern city is ugly not because it is a city but because it is not enough of a city, because it is a jungle, because it is confused and anarchic, and surging with selfish and materialistic energies.