The big corporation is not in the least remarkable for efficiency; it is only too big to be blamed for its inefficiency.

Just the other day in the Underground I enjoyed the pleasure of offering my seat to three ladies.

There is also an insulting speech about 'one grey day just like another'. You might as well talk about one green tree like another.

But we are the people of England; and we have not spoken yet. Smile at us, pay us, pass us. But do not quite forget.

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.

Free verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture'.

I like the Cyclostyle ink; it is so inky. I do not think there is anyone who takes quite such a fierce pleasure in things being themselves as I do. The startling wetness of water excites and intoxicates me: the fieriness of fire, the steeliness of steel, the unutterable muddiness of mud. It is just the same with people.... When we call a man "manly" or a woman "womanly" we touch the deepest philosophy.