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

The pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.

Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other's.

You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.

The truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong.

All the controversialists who have become conscious of the real issue are already saying of our ideal exactly what used to be said of the Socialists' ideal. They are saying that private property is too ideal not to be impossible. They are saying that private enterprise is too good to be true. They are saying that the idea of ordinary men owning ordinary possessions is against the laws of political economy and requires an alteration in human nature.

People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.