Room to swing a cat, it seemed was absolutely essential. It was an infrequent but indispensable operation.

I stood staring, not as yet realising that this was death leaping from man to man in that little distant crowd.

I write to cover a frame of ideas.

There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.

I am for world-control of production and of trade and transport, for a world coinage, and the confederation of mankind. I am for the super-State.

You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic, clumsy and unreliable - but teach him, inoculate him with chess.

The art of ignoring is one of the accomplishments of every well-bred girl, so carefully instilled that at last she can even ignore her own thoughts and her own knowledge.