Churches are wonderful and beautiful, and they are vehicles for religion, but no Church can have more than a very little of the truth.

Love's a disease. But curable.

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

Cruelty was the devil, and most people were, in one way or another, cruel. Tyranny, suppression, persecution, torture, slavery, war, neglect - all were cruel. The world was acid and sour with hate, fat with greed, yellow with the triumph of the strong and the rich.

You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting.

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

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.