There are two kinds of imperialists - imperialists and bloody imperialists.

To make laws is a human instinct that arises as soon as food and shelter have been ensured, among all peoples, everywhere.

There is, of course, no reason for the existence of the male sex except that one sometimes needs help with moving the piano.

The Portrait of a Lady is entirely successful in giving one the sense of having met somebody far too radiantly good for this world.

... A La Recherche du Temps Perdu is like a beautiful hand with long fingers reaching out to pluck a perfect fruit, without error,for the accurate eye knows well it is growing just there on the branch, while Ulysses is the fumbling of a horned hand in darkness after a doubted jewel.

The [nineteenth-century] young men who were Puritans in politics were anti-Puritans in literature. They were willing to die for the independence of Poland or the Manchester Fenians; and they relaxed their tension by voluptuous reading in Swinburne.

When we choose a god we choose one as much like ourselves as possible, or even more so!