A great many quite good plays could be performed with rhythmic howls in the place of dialogue and lose almost nothing by the change.

She saw she had fallen into the hands of one of those doctors who have strayed too far from apparent in the direction of the soul.

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.

His smile bore the same relation to a real smile as false teeth do to real teeth.

the reward for total abstinence from alcohol seems, illogically enough, to be the capacity for becoming intoxicated without it.

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.

works of art feel towards human beings exactly as we do towards ghosts. The transparency of spectres, the diffuseness in space which lets them drift through doors and walls, and their smell of death, disgust us not more than we disgust works of art by our meaninglessness, our diffuseness in time which lets us drift through three score years and ten without a quarter as much significance as a picture establishes instantaneously.