I always have beauty around me, for I have but to go to my piano, and trace one of the million designs that have been made by my masters.

I find to my astonishment that an unhappy marriage goes on being unhappy when it is over.

There is, of course, no reason for the existence of the male sex except that one sometimes needs help with moving the piano.

There was too much hatred in the world; it was manifestly as dangerous as gunpowder, yet people let it lie about, in the way of ignition.

Charity is an ugly trick. It is a virtue grown by the rich on the graves of the poor. Unless it is accompanied by sincere revolt against the present social system, it is a cheap moral swagger. In former times it was used as fire insurance by the rich, but now that the fear of Hell has gone along with the rest of revealed religion, it is used either to gild mean lives with nobility or as a political instrument.

Of Virginia Woolf: The talent of this generation which is most certain of survival.

I believe if people are looking for the truth, the truth of the Christian religion will come out and meet them.