Atheism was natural enough, but heresy seemed strange. For, surely, if one could believe anything, one could believe everything.

If words are to change their meanings, as assuredly they are, let each user of language make such changes as please himself, put up his own suggestions, and let the best win.

Age has extremely little to do with anything that matters. The difference between one age and another is, as a rule, enormously exaggerated.

I seldom meet actors, they are to me bright strange fishes swimming in an element alien to me; I feel that to meet them is to See Life.

Nearly all novels are too long.

One could do with a longer year - so much to do, so little done, alas.

Here is one of the points about this planet which should be remembered; into every penetrable corner of it, and into most of the impenetrable corners, the English will penetrate. They are like that; born invaders. They cannot stay at home.