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" There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy. "

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" What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives? "

" Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return. "

" It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools. "

" England has always been disinclined to accept human nature. "

" Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch. "

" The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot. "

" Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon. "

" To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way. "

" Unless we remember we cannot understand. "

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" I'm a holy man minus the holiness. "

" Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's. "

" The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance. "

" Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another. "

" Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind. "

" Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake. "

" Reverence is fatal to literature. "

" No one is India. "

" What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote. "

" America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large. "

" Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration. "

" I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars. "

" We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship. "

" Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something. "

" Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna. "

" The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists. "

" The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death. "

" The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink. "