The young are often accused of exaggerating their troubles they do so, very often, in the hope of making some impression upon the inertia and the immovability of the selfish old.
I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed - and one of them hadn't even been colored in yet.
No people in the world can make you feel so small as the English.
I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them.
The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer.
Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.
I do not 'get' ideas ideas get me.
Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.
A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.
You never see what you want to see, forever playing to the gallery.
Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars.
Tristan and Isolde were lucky to die when they did. They'd have been sick of all that rubbish in a year.
Only a fool expects to be happy all the time.
Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog fewer when pursued by a mad woman only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.
Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best.
A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.
He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities.
Admission is free but the taxation is mortal. You come when you can, and leave when you must. The show is continuous. Good-night.
May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence Write it down write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery.
There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.
Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.
The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring.
The clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness who read for pastime but not to kill time who love books, but do not live by books.
The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion what is left is theater.
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