Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.

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

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

In England and America a beard usually means that its owner would rather be considered venerable than virile; on the continent of Europe it often means that its owner makes a special claim to virility.

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

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

Bad art is maintained by the neurotic, who is deadly afraid of authentic art because it inspires him to go on living, and he is terrified of life.