Getting a divorce is nearly always as cheerful and useful an occupation as breaking valuable china.

It's my profession to bring people from various outlying districts of the mind to the normal. There seems to be a general feeling it's the place where they ought to be. Sometimes I don't see the urgency myself.

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

There are two kinds of imperialists - imperialists and bloody imperialists.

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.

... 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.

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