The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice

A state of reverie does not avoid reality, it accedes to reality.

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.

Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.

Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.

It must be that there is something naturally absurd in a sincere emotion, though why there should be I cannot imagine, unless it is that man, the ephemeral inhabitant of an insignificant planet, with all his pain and all his striving is but a jest in an eternal mind.

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.