"Destroy him as you will, the bourgeois always bounces up — execute him, expropriate him, starve him out en masse, and…"

"Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of charm."

"Mr. Wilson does not write as one who believes in a particular religion but rather as an intellectual who is being for…"

"He reduced everything to politics; he was also unalterably of the Left. His line may have been unpopular or unfashion…"

"I greet you, my educated fellow bourgeois, whose interests and whose doubts I share."

"The Mandarin style at its best yields the richest and most complete expression of the English language. It is the dic…"

"Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once, and they…"

"We write in the language of Dryden and Addison, of Milton and Shakespeare, but the intellectual world we inhabit is t…"

"The lesson one can learn from Firbank is that of inconsequence. There is the vein which he tapped and which has not y…"

"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."