He has hay upon his horn. [He is a mischievous person. ]
Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.
democracy always makes for materialism, because the only kind of equality that you can guarantee to a whole people is, broadly speaking, physical.
Culture' means a long receptivity to things of the mind and the spirit.
. . . the more we recruit from immigrants who bring no personal traditions with them, the more America is going to ignore the things of the spirit. No one whose consuming desire is either for food or for motor-cars is going to care about culture, or even know what it is.
Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.
Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.
I have always liked clothes and fashion. And really, being a British male, I am automatically the best dressed person in any room - especially in America.
Emblem: the carapace of the great crowned snail is painted with all the flags of the United Nations.
A plot is like the bones of a person, not interesting like expression, or signs of experience, but the support of the whole.
Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty, remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil.