Why did you look at the sunset?' Philip answered with his mouth full: Because I was happy.

When things are at their worst, I find something always happens.

By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.

A soul is a troublesome possession, and when man developed it he lost the Garden of Eden.

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.

The ballet. I saw in the fugitive beauty of a dancer's gesture a symbol of life. It was achieved at the cost of unending effort but, with all the forces of gravity against it, a fleeting poise in mid-air, a lovely attitude worthy to be made immortal in a bas-relief, it was lost as soon as it was gained and there remained no more than the memory of an exquisite emotion. So life, lived variously and largely, becomes a work of art only when brought to its beautiful conclusion and is reduced to nothingness in the moment when it arrives at perfection.

He did not care upon what terms he satisfied his passion. He had even a mad, melodramatic idea to drug her.