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| One tapped my shoulder and asked me `How did you fall, sir?' / Whereat I awakened. | | Uncategorized | |
| Only those in the last stage of disease could believe that children are true judges of character. | | Uncategorized | |
| Our researchers into Public Opinion are content/ That he held the proper opinions for the time of year;/ When there was peace, he was for peace; when there was war, he went. | | Uncategorized | |
| Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return. | | Impatience; Sin | |
| Pleasure is by no means an infallible guide, but it is the least fallible. | | Uncategorized | |
| Poetry is the clear expression of mixed feelings. | | Poetry | |
| Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying. | | Uncategorized | |
| Political history is far too criminal and pathological to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villains from fiction. | | Uncategorized | |
| Poor Poe! At first so forgotten that his grave went without a tomb-stone twenty-six years. . . today in danger of becoming the life study of a few professors. | | Uncategorized | |
| Precisely because we do not communicate by singing, a song can be out of place but not out of character; it is just as credible that a stupid person should sing beautifully as that a clever person should do so. | | Uncategorized | |
| Private faces in public places / Are wiser and nicer / Than public faces in private places. | | Uncategorized | |
| Proper names are poetry in the raw. Like all poetry they are untranslatable. | | Uncategorized | |
| Rhymes, meters, stanza forms, etc., are like servants. If the master is fair enough to win their affection and firm enough to command their respect, the result is an orderly happy household. If he is too tyrannical, they give notice; if he lacks authority, they become slovenly, impertinent, drunk and dishonest. | | Uncategorized | |
| Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing to obey his master's commands when, in fact, he is obliged to. Most slaves of habit suffer from this delusion and so do some writers, enslaved by an all too ''personal'' style. | | Uncategorized | |
| Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy | | Uncategorized | |
| Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered. | | Uncategorized | |
| Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about. | | Writers | |
| Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone. Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone. Silence the pianos and with muffled drum, Bring out the coffin...let the mourners come. Let aeroplanes circle, moaning overhead, Scribbling on the sky the message: He is Dead. Put crepe bows 'round the necks of public doves, Let traffic policemen wear black, cotton gloves. He was my North, my South, my East, my West. My working week and my Sunday rest. My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song, I thought love would last forever: I was wrong. The stars are not wanted now, put out every one. Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun. Pour out the ocean and sweep up the wood, For nothing now can ever come to any good. | | Uncategorized | |
| The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the sense of pride in their profession that the less socially elevated musical comedy and music hall people or acrobats have. The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen. | | Uncategorized | |
| The Americans are violently oral. That's why in America the mother is all-important and the father has no position at all / isn't respected in the least. Even the American passion for laxatives can be explained as an oral manifestation. They want to get rid of any unpleasantness taken in through the mouth. | | Uncategorized | |
