Big Business and State Socialism are very much alike, especially Big Business.

People have fallen into a foolish habit of speaking of orthodoxy as something heavy, humdrum, and safe. There never was anything so perilous or so exciting as orthodoxy. It was sanity: and to be sane is more dramatic than to be mad.

The old idea that the joke was not good enough for the company has been superseded by the new aristocratic idea that the company was not worthy of the joke. They have introduced an almost insane individualism into that one form of intercourse which is specially and uproariously communal. They have made even levities into secrets. They have made laughter lonelier than tears.

The atheist is not interested in anything except attacks on atheism.

Every politician is emphatically a promising politician.

Modern broad-mindedness benefits the rich; and benefits nobody else.

The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery.