It seemed a good idea at the time.

It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

domestic work is the most elementary form of labor. It is suitable for those with the intelligence of rabbits. All it requires is cleanlines, tidiness and quickness - not moral or intellectual qualities at all, but merely the outward and visible signs of health.

When those of our army whose voices are likely to coo tell us that the day of sex antagonism is over and that henceforth we only have to advance hand in hand with the male, I do not believe it.

I really write to find out what I know about something and what is to be known about something.

International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.

[Evelyn Waugh] made drunkenness cute and chic, and then took to religion, simply to have the most expensive carpet of all to be sick on.