I know nothing, except what everyone knows - if there when Grace dances, I should dance.

Courses in prosody, rhetoric and comparative philology would be required of all students, and every student would have to select three courses out of courses in mathematics, natural history, geology, meteorology, archaeology, mythology, liturgics, cooking.

A shilling life will give you all the facts.

The only way to spend New Year's Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears.

What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed?

When someone between twenty and forty says, apropos of a work of art, 'I know what I like,' he is really saying 'I have no taste of my own but accept the taste of my cultural milieu.

Oh, how I wish that Orwell were still alive, so that I could read his comments on contemporary events!