Money cannot buy the fuel of love but is excellent kindling.
Every high C accurately struck demolishes the theory that we are the irresponsible puppets of fate or chance.
Words are for those with promises to keep.
As a rule, it was the pleasure-haters who became unjust.
Detective stories have nothing to do with works of art.
There are three cardinal rules – don’t take somebody else’s boyfriend unless you’ve been specifically invited to do so, don’t take a drink without being asked, and keep a scrupulous accounting in financial matters.
I don’t get acting jobs because of my looks.
The closest modern equivalent to the Homeric hero is the ace fighter pilot.
How happy the lot of the mathematician. He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve.
The parlour cars and Pullmans are packed also with scented assassins, salad-eaters who murder on milk.
Fate succumbs many a species: one alone jeopardises itself.
Earth, receive an honored guest; William Yeats is laid to rest. Let the Irish vessel lie Emptied of its poetry.
I just try to put the thing out and hope somebody will read it. Someone says: ‘Whom do you write for?’ I reply: ‘Do you read me?’ If they say ‘Yes,’ I say, ‘Do you like it?’ If they say ‘No,’ then I say, ‘I don’t write for you.’
But once in a while the odd thing happens Once in a while the dream comes true And the whole pattern of life is altered Once in a while, the moon turns blue.
A craftsman knows in advance what the finished result will be, while the artist knows only what it will be when he has finished it.
A man has his distinctive personal scent which his wife, his children and his dog can recognize. A crowd has a generalized stink. The public is odorless.
Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.
What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed?
There are not many English novels which deserve to be called great: Parade’s End is one of them.
The lights must never go out, The music must always play.