That there is a secret itself is a secret.
I always have a quotation for everything – it saves original thinking.
A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going is a society founded on trash and waste, for such a society is a house built upon sand.
A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
It is fatal to let people suppose that Christianity is only a mode of feeling; it is vitally necessary to insist that it is first and foremost a rational explanation of the universe.
If men will not understand the meaning of judgement, they will never come to understand the meaning of grace.
It is not the business of the church to adapt Christ to men, but men to Christ.
The people who hanged Christ never, to do them justice, accused Him of being a bore – on the contrary; they thought Him too dynamic to be safe. It has been left for later generations to muffle up that shattering personality and surround Him with an atmosphere of tedium.
None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can’t teach people that – they have to learn by experience.
We’ve got to laugh or break our hearts in this damnable world.
There are crimes which the Law cannot reach.
The business of the artist is not to escape from his material medium or bully it, but to serve it; but to serve it, he must love it. If he does so, he will realise that in its service is perfect freedom.
He was so crooked, you could have used his spine for a safety-pin.
A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.
First I believe it to be a grave mistake to present Christianity as something charming and popular with no offense inn it.
A person who tells a secret, swearing the recipient to secrecy in turn, is asking of the other person a discretion which he is abrogating himself.
A woman fit to be a man’s wife is too good to be his servant.
The dogma of the Incarnation is the most dramatic thing about Christianity, and indeed, the most dramatic thing that ever entered the mind of man; but if you tell people so, they stare at you in bewilderment.
To subdue one’s self to one’s own ends might be dangerous, but to subdue one’s self to other people’s ends was dust and ashes. Yet there were those, still more unhappy, who envied even the ashy saltness of those dead sea apples.
A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven’t got any of your own.