... the English think of an opinion as something which a decent person, if he has the misfortune to have one, does all he can to hide.

The position of children as a group, in a commercial society, is not wholly advantageous. A commercial society urges its citizens to be responsible for things, but not for people. It is the unquestioned assumption of a mercantile culture that things need and deserve attention, but that people can take care of themselves.

Living in England, provincial England, must be like being married to a stupid but exquisitely beautiful wife.

Folklore is a collection of ridiculous notions held by other people, but not by you and me.

The real nature of an ethic is that it does not become an ethic unless and until it goes into action.

He must have had a magnificent build before his stomach went in for a career of its own.

American business, while it does not frown on helping the human race, frowns on people who start right in helping the human race without first proving that they can sell things to it.