It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. - Of Human Bondage

I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it. They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum.

My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.

And I have the sunset, and the Tuscan wine, and the white teeth of the women in Rome. I am a traveler in Romance.

There's nothing the world loves more than a ready-made description which they can hang on to a man, and so save themselves all trouble in future.

The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.

What was it in the human heart that made you despise a man because he loved you?