Giving is not at all interesting; but receiving is, there is no doubt about it, delightful.

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

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

Mozart is everyone's tea, pleasing to highbrows, middlebrows and lowbrows alike, though they probably all get different kinds of pleasure from him.

When I have eaten mangoes, I have felt like Eve.

miss my daily Mass, and have a superstitious feeling that anything may happen on the days I don't go. However, nothing in particular has.

One day I shall write a little book of conduct myself, and I shall call it Social Problems of the Unsociable. And the root problem, beneath a hundred varying manifestions, is How to Escape. How to escape, that is, at those times, be they few or frequent, when you want to keep yourself to yourself.