"If escapes the oblivion he so much dreaded, it will be neither as doctor nor as mathematician, but because, at the en…"

"I am the means and not the end. I am the food and not the life. Stand by yourself, as that boy has stood. I cannot sa…"

"Sir, – Mr A. A. Milne's brilliant article deserves special thanks for its scathing analysis of 'the sanctity of our g…"

"There is fascism, leading only into the blackness which it has chosen as its symbol, into smartness and yapping out o…"

"I know very well how limited and how open to criticism, English freedom is. It is race-bound and it's class-bound. It…"

"If God could tell the story of the Universe, the Universe would become fictitious."

"As for my politics, you will have guessed that I am not a Fascist — Fascism does evil that evil may come. And I am no…"

"I enjoy French poetry as well as French prose, and I believe that this land must have some cultural connection with t…"

"The really bad people, it seems to me, are those who do no good anywhere and help no one either at home or abroad. Th…"

"A mirror does not develop because an historical pageant passes in front of it. It only develops when it gets a fresh …"