Ridicule is the only honorable weapon we have left.

The sacrifice of pleasures is of course itself a pleasure.

The true novelist is one who understands the work as a continuous poem, is a myth-maker, and the wonder of the art resides in the endless different ways of telling a story.

Frankness is usually a euphemism for rudeness.

For those who like that sort of thing," said Miss Brodie in her best Edinburgh voice, "That is the sort of thing they like.

How wonderful it feels to be an artist and a woman in the twentieth century.

I was just as anxious to prevent injustice as to cause justice.