Marriage had certain commercial advantages. By it the man secures the exclusive right to the woman's body and by it, the woman binds the man to support her during the rest of her life.... A more disgraceful bargain was never struck.

Here lies the real terror in the international war of ideologies; that a city knows not whom it entertains.

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.

I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly as a test of value.

If ever peace is to be imposed on the world it will only be because a large number of men who could have taken part in the drill display by the Guards or Marines or at the Royal Tournament turn that strength and precision to the service of life.

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.

I have no faith in the sense of comforting beliefs which persuade me that all my troubles are blessings in disguise.