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.

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.

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

His smile bore the same relation to a real smile as false teeth do to real teeth.

domestic work is the most elementary form of labor. It is suitable for those with the intelligence of rabbits. All it requires is cleanlines, tidiness and quickness - not moral or intellectual qualities at all, but merely the outward and visible signs of health.

Nobody ever wrote a good book simply by collecting a number of accurate facts and valid ideas.

Mr. James Joyce is a great man who is entirely without taste.