To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.
Where there is no love there is no understanding.
Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.
Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life
Love is a misunderstanding between two fools.
A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating.