In time they could not even fly after their hats. Want of practice, they called it; but what it really meant was that they no longer believed.

The best of our fiction is by novelists who allow that it is as good as they can give, and the worst by novelists who maintain that they could do much better if only the public would let them.

Nobody really wants us. So let us watch and say jaggy things, in the hope that some of them will hurt.

The man of science appears to be the only man who has something to say just now, and the only man who does not know how to say it.

As soon as you can say what you think and not what some other person has thought for you, you are on the way to being a remarkable man.

In England, justice is open to all - like the Ritz Hotel.

It was dreadful the way all the three were looking at him, just as if they did not admire him.