Art and propaganda have this much connection, that if a propaganda makes art impossible, it is clearly damned.

It isn't only living people who die, it is great stretches of living, which can die even when the people who lived there still exist.

Motherhood is neither a duty nor a privilege, but simply the way that humanity can satisfy the desire for physical immortality and triumph over the fear of death.

Human beings are mercifully so constituted as to be able to conceal from themselves what they intend to do until they are well into the doing of it.

If it be ungentlemanly to kiss and tell, it is still further from gentlemanliness to pray and tell.

Now different races and nationalities cherish different ideals of society that stink in each other's nostrils with an offensiveness beyond the power of any but the most monstrous private deed.

a good oyster cannot please the palate as acutely as a bad one can revolt it, and a good oyster cannot make him who eats it live for ever though a bad one can make him dead for ever.