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

...a figure of speech can often get into a crack too small for a definition.

I've been to every park in every city and not seen a statue to a committee.

A thing may be too sad to be believed or too wicked to be believed or too good to be believed; but it cannot be too absurd to be believed in this planet of frogs and elephants, of crocodiles and cuttle-fish.

It is well sometimes to half understand a poem in the same manner that we half understand the world.

A feminist is someone who loathes being a woman and who dislikes the chief feminine characteristics.

The diseased pride [of artistic individualists] was not even conscious of a public interest, and would have found all political terms utterly tasteless and insignificant. It was no longer a question of one man one vote, but of one man one universe.