"Among the maggots that breed in the corruption of poetry one of the commonest is the bookworm. When Athens had decaye…"

"My dream is of a British statesman who could say to his countrymen: "You are sick of war, weary of entanglements. The…"

"Considering what was to come, the much-abused 'theft' of the sculptures from the Acropolis by Lord Elgin was an undou…"

"On nights when the moon creeps shrouded up the sky And hedge and holt lie glimmering ghostly grey, A voice still whis…"

"Paris may pass in gas and flame and blood — We shall sit safe behind our sundering flood. Berlin may build a Holier I…"

"Many honest folk feel it hard to deny the Sudetens self-determination, if they want to belong to the Reich. But then,…"

"Most of us know accurately only what we constantly relearn; memory is a dipsomaniac, needing to be perpetually refres…"

"A skill once acquired — for example, the power to speak and write and enjoy one’s own language, or another — is less …"

"Criticism is not a science whose elements can be mass-taught to adolescents — it is a difficult art, at which even ad…"

"It is unlikely that many of us will be famous, or even remembered. But not less important than the brilliant few that…"