Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is.

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

Why must you always try to be omnipotent, and shove things about? Tragic things happen sometimes that we just have to submit to.

Christianity must be regarded not as a final revelation but as a phase of revelation.

... when the Spaniards persecuted heretics they may have been crude, but they were not being unreasonable or unpractical. They were at least wiser than the people of to-day who pretend that it does not matter what a man believes, as who should say that the flavour and digestibility of a pudding will have nothing to do with its ingredients.

Mr. Arnold Bennett feels he has ranked himself for ever as a dry wine by what he mixed with himself of Maupassant; nevertheless he has put on the market some grocer's Sauterne in the form of several novels that are highly sentimental so far as their fundamental balance of values is concerned.

I have never been able to write with anything more than the left hand of my mind; the right hand has always been engaged in something to do with personal relationships. I don't complain, because I think my left hand's power, as much as it has, is due to its knowledge of what my right hand is doing.