The poor complain that they are governed badly. The rich complain that they are governed at all.

A great deal of contemporary criticism reads to me like a man saying, 'Of course I do not like green cheese. I am very fond of brown sherry.

Facts by themselves can often feed the flame of madness, because sanity is a spirit.

All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.

Is ditchwater dull? Naturalists with microscopes have told me that it teems with quiet fun.

The books that influence the world are those that it has not read.

It has been left to the last Christians, or rather to the first Christians fully committed to blaspheming and denying Christianity, to invent a new kind of worship of Sex, which is not even a worship of Life. It has been left to the very latest Modernists to proclaim an erotic religion which at once exalts lust and forbids fertility . . . The new priests abolish the fatherhood and keep the feast - to themselves.