We do not write as we want, but as we can.

There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.

The worst of having so much tact was that you never quite knew whether other people were acting naturally or being tactful too. [The human element]

Genius is talent provided with ideals.

I never spend more than one hour in a gallery. That is as long as one's power of appreciation persists.

I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to the universities go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene ... They are scum.

As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.