For Tommy, on that hot and empty afternoon, was in a state of mind in which grown-up people go away and write books about their whole world, and stories about what it is like to be married, and plays about the important problems of modern times. Tommy, being only ten years old, was not able to do harm on this large and handsome scale.

...It's natural to believe in the supernatural. It never feels natural to accept only natural things.

Every heresy has been an effort to narrow the Church.

That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face - that young man was not really a poet; but surely he was a poem.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out of an English flagon.

When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.