Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too.

Remember I'm an artist. And you know what that means in a court of law. Next worst to an actress

The fear of hell, the punishment of sin, how the modern parent revolts from such teaching. Yet I will assert that far from doing us children harm, it was a sure foundation to the world of our confidence, a master girder in our palace of delight.

No honest hardworking official likes to see good money disappearing into the hands of the Treasury at the end of the financial year.

It is sometimes said that toleration should be refused to the intolerant. In practice this would destroy it... The only remedy for dogmatism and lies is toleration and the greatest possible liberty of expression.

Life would die without poets, and democracy must have its spellbinders.

All art is bad, but modern art is the worst.