I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.

This little upset across the water doesn't mean anything. Threatened men live long and threatened wars never occur.

I don't suppose any man has ever understood any woman since the beginning of things. You don't understand our imaginations, how wild our imaginations can be.

Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough---as most wrong theories are!

The fact is, the Time Traveller was one of those men who are too clever to be believed: you never felt that you saw all round him; you always suspected some subtle reserve, some ingenuity in ambush, behind his lucid frankness.

One believes in Stephen Dedalus as one believes in few characters in fiction.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.