Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.
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I have an idea that some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but they have always a nostalgia for a home they know not. They are strangers at their birthplace, and the leafy lanes they have known from childhood or the populous streets in which they have played, remain but a place of passage. They may spend their whole lives aliens among their kindred and remain aloof among the only scenes they have ever knows. Perhaps it is this sense of strangeness that sends men far and wide in the search for something permanent, to which they may attach themselves. Perhaps some deep-rooted atavism urges the wanderer back to lands which his ancestors left in the dim beginnings of history. Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs. Here is the home he sought, and he will settle amid scenes that he has never seen before, among men he has never known, as though they were familiar to him from his birth. Here at last he finds rest.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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No egoism is so insufferable as that of the Christian with regard to his soul.
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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.
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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.
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Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.
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Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.
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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money it values more, it will lose that more.
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I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
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There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.
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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will Lose its freedom and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.
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At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.
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If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
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It is funny about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the very best you will very often get it.
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Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.
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When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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When I was young I had an elderly friend who used often to ask me to stay with him in the country. He was a religious man and he read prayers to the assembled household every morning. But he had crossed out in pencil all the passages that praised God. He said that there was nothing so vulgar as to praise people to their faces and, himself a gentleman, he could not believe that God was so ungentlemanly as to like it.
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Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
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Life isn't long enough for love and art.
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I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God.
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When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
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It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
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Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom; and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.
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You can do anything in this world if you are prepares to take the consequences.
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