It is probably true to say that the largest scope for change still lies in men's attitude to women, and in women's attitude to themselves.

I wish those people who write so glibly about this being a holy war and the orators who talk so much about going on, no matter how long the war lasts and what it may mean, could see a case of musterd gas - the poor things burnt and blistered all over with great musterd coloured suppurating blisters, with blind eyes, all sticky and stuck together, and always fighting for breath, with voices a mere whisper, saying their throats are closing and they know they will choke.

Few of humanity's characteristics are more disconcerting than its ability to reduce world-events to its own level, wherever this may happen to be.

I know of no place where the wind can be as icy and the damp so penetrating as in Oxford round about Easter time.

most of us have to be self-righteous before we can be righteous.

However deep our devotion may be to parents or to children, it is our contemporaries alone with whom understanding is instinctive and entire.

An author who waits for the right 'mood' will soon find that 'moods' get fewer and fewer until they cease altogether.