Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.
A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.
All architecture is great architecture after sunset; perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.
The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.
Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer’s day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.
It is as healthy to enjoy sentiment as to enjoy jam.
The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
Journalism largely consists of saying ‘Lord Jones is Dead’ to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.
The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.
I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.
Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.
One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.
It is always the secure who are humble.
A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.
There’d be a lot less scandal if people didn’t idealize sin and pose as sinners.