A good cause has to be careful of the company it keeps.

[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.

Mozart eliminates the idea of haste from life. His airs could not lag as they make their journey through the listener's attention; they are not the right shape for loitering. But it is as true that they never rush, they are never headlong or helter-skelter, they splash no mud, they raise no dust.

There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.

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

The earth itself is slightly resistant to routine.

If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: 'It seemed like a good idea at the time.'