Art requires, above all things, a suppression of self, a subordination of one's self to an idea.

Novelist-Citizen of Two Countries Interpreter of his Generation on both Sides of the Sea.

If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land.

However British you may be, I am more British still.

The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implication of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of feeling life, in general, so completely that you are well on your way to knowing any particular corner of it-this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience, and they occur in country and in town, and in the most differing stages of education.

... since she might not be splendid, she would at least be immaculate.

It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games