We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body.

If the Socialism is Authoritarian; if there are Governments armed with economic power as they are now with political power; if, in a word, we are to have Industrial Tyrannies, then the last state of man will be worse than the first.

There are few things easier than to live badly and die well.

Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Every thing to be true must become a religion.

Truth is independent of facts always.