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Never approach a friend's wife or girlfriend with mischief as your goal ... unless she's really attractive.

The impulse to ask questions is among the more primitive human lusts.

He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays
cynical but hopeful.

Why is humanity so excessive in the way it does things? The golden mean seems out of fashion.

When I have eaten mangoes, I have felt like Eve.

It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.

Publishers of course have you altogether in their grip; if they say you must do a thing you have jolly well got to do it.

To be prejudiced is the privilege of the thinking human being ... The open mind is the empty mind.

Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years.

Age has extremely little to do with anything that matters. The difference between one age and another is, as a rule, enormously exaggerated.

The position of women, that sad and well-nigh universal blot on civilizations, was never far from her mind.

Mozart is everyone's tea, pleasing to highbrows, middlebrows and lowbrows alike, though they probably all get different kinds of pleasure from him.

It is to the eccentrics that the world owes most of its knowledge.

The manuscript may go forth from the writer to return with a faithfulness passing the faithfulness of the boomerang or the homing pigeon.

God very seldom succeeds. He has very nearly everything against him, of course.

To lunch with the important ... that should be the daily goal of those for whom life is not a playground but a ladder.

One never feels such distaste for one's countrymen and countrywomen as when one meets them abroad.

Human passions against eternal laws
that is the everlasting conflict.

Atheism was natural enough, but heresy seemed strange. For, surely, if one could believe anything, one could believe everything.

Giving is not at all interesting; but receiving is, there is no doubt about it, delightful.

The poet has to make a synthesis out of the moral life of our time, and this life is lived at this moment on a political plane.

Churches are wonderful and beautiful, and they are vehicles for religion, but no Church can have more than a very little of the truth.

Miss my daily Mass, and have a superstitious feeling that anything may happen on the days I don't go. However, nothing in particular has.

Take my camel, dear,' said my aunt Dot, climbing down from that animal on her return from high Mass.

News is like food: it is the cooking and serving that makes it acceptable, not the material itself.

I seldom meet actors, they are to me bright strange fishes swimming in an element alien to me; I feel that to meet them is to See Life.

One should, I think, always give children money, for they will spend it for themselves far more profitably than we can ever spend it for them.

It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead.

At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.

Love's a disease. But curable.

You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting.

The last sin, the sin against the Holy Ghost - to lie to oneself. Lying to other people - that's a small thing in comparison.

Nothing, perhaps, is strange, once you have accepted life itself, the great strange business which includes all lesser strangeness.

The great and recurrent question about Abroad is, is it worth the trouble of getting there?

One could do with a longer year - so much to do, so little done, alas.

Nearly all novels are too long.