"If I didn’t escape at intervals with straws in my hair and commit a thoroughly idiotic, irresponsible and undignified…"

"A writer who presents men and women as creatures truncated below the waist is exposed as one who goes about without h…"

"Oh, no, no, no! Couldn't think of it. It's a very dangerous book. Had a very bad influence."

"The peculiar rigidity of the English mind is seen at its noblest in the Times literary supplement."

"A man’s self-respect is curiously involved with his ability to force a community to disburse certain sums of money fo…"

"If anyone assumes that going one's own way is the easy way, they are very much in error. There's no harder way to go."

"They were a bloodthirsty lot, those sentimentalists who wept for the sad lot of the working classes."

"The best love affairs are those we never had."

"There is something extremely disgusting in having one's work pawed by policemen."

"I am fanatic enough to believe that my thought is something the world needs."