People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.

Time and again, the Faith has to all appearances gone to the dogs. But each time, it was the dog that died.

In real life the people who are most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all.

London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.

We do not want joy and anger to neutralize each other and produce a surly contentment; we want a fiercer delight and a fiercer discontent. We have to feel the universe at once as an ogre's castle, to be stormed, and yet as our own cottage, to which we can return to at evening.

If the barricades went up in our streets and the poor became masters, I think the priests would escape, I fear the gentlemen would; but I believe the gutters would simply be running with the blood of philanthropists.