I am writing a book about the ...

I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.

Time after time mankind is dri...

Time after time mankind is driven against the rocks of the horrid reality of a fallen creation. And time after time mankind must learn the hard lessons of history-the lessons that for some dangerous and awful reason we can't seem to keep in our collective memory.

Put you hand before your eyes ...

Put you hand before your eyes and remember, you that have walked, the places from which you have walked away, and the wilderness into which you manfully turned the steps of your abandonment ... It is your business to leave all that you have know altogether behind you, and no man has eyes at the back of his head - go forward.

When one remembers how the Cat...

When one remembers how the Catholic Church has been governed, and by whom, one realizes that it must have been divinely inspired to have survived at all.

Before the curse of statistics...

Before the curse of statistics fell upon mankind we lived a happy, innocent life, full of merriment and go and informed by fairly good judgment.

If we are to be happy, decent ...

If we are to be happy, decent and secure of our souls: drink some kind of fermented liquor with one's food; go on the water from time to time; dance on occasions, and sing in a chorus...

The choice lies between proper...

The choice lies between property on the one hand and slavery, public or private, on the other. There is no third issue.

The moment a man talks to his ...

The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie.

Great artistic talent in any d...

Great artistic talent in any direction... is hardly inherent to the man. It comes and goes; it is often possessed only for a short phase in his life; it hardly ever colors his character as a whole and has nothing to do with the moral and intellectual stuff of the mind and soul. Many great artists, perhaps most great artists, have been poor fellows indeed, whom to know was to despise.

Write as the wind blows and co...

Write as the wind blows and command all words like an army!

Money gives me pleasure all th...

Money gives me pleasure all the time.

Of all fatiguing, futile, empt...

Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.

Writing itself is a bad enough...

Writing itself is a bad enough trade, rightly held up to ridicule and contempt by the greater part of mankind, and especially by those who do real work, plowing, riding, sailing

The Rich arrived in pairs

The Rich arrived in pairs
And also in Rolls Royces;
They talked of their affairs
In loud and strident voices...

The Poor arrived in Fords,
Whose features they resembled;
They laughed to see so many Lords
And Ladies all assembled.

The People in Between
Looked underdone and harassed,
And our of place and mean,
And Horribly embarrassed.

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The microbe is so very small: ...

The microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at all.

I always like to associate wit...

I always like to associate with a lot of priests because it makes me understand anti-clerical things so well.

You are my cat, and I am your ...

You are my cat, and I am your human.

Just as there is nothing betwe...

Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.

There are few greater temptati...

There are few greater temptations on earth than to stay permanently at Oxford in meditation, and to read all the books in the Bodlean.

Of old when folk lay sick and ...

Of old when folk lay sick and sorely tried The doctors gave them physic, and they died. But here's a happier age: for now we know Both how to make men sick and keep them so.