And why should it not be terrifying? A little terror, in my view, is good for the soul, when it is terror in the face of a noble object.

The love that dare not speak its name has become the love that won't shut up.

The Alexander Technique keeps the body alive, at ages when many people have resigned themselves to irreversible decline.

She has been kissed as often as a police-court Bible, and by much the same class of people.

If you attack Stupidity you attack an entrenched interest with friends in government and every walk of public life.

I don't suppose God laughs at the people who think He doesn't exist. He's above jokes. But the devil isn't. That's one of his most endearing qualities.

The art of the quoter is to know when to stop.