Malice is only another name for mediocrity.

It often occurs to me that we love most what makes us miserable. In my opinion the damned are damned because they enjoy being damned.

Malice is only another name for mediocrity.

It is impossible to read the daily press without being diverted from reality. You are full of enthusiasm for the eternal verities - life is worth living, and then out of sinful curiosity you open a newspaper. You are disillusioned and wrecked.

On the stem of memory imaginations blossom.

Macmillan's rejection had left him very downcast... Patrick Swift was invited to peruse the contents and decided that the poems should be published.

Actors are loved because they are unoriginal. Actors stick to their script. The unoriginal man is loved by the mediocrity because this kind of artistic expression is something to which the merest five-eighth can climb.