I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners.

Quomondo sedet sola civitas. Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be.

'...But I saw today there was one thing unforgivable - like things in the school-room, so bad they were unpunishable, that only mummy could deal with - the bad…

The best of our fiction is by novelists who allow that it is as good as they can give, and the worst by novelists who maintain that they could do much better i…

I regard criticism as an art, and if in this country and in this age it is practiced with honesty, it is no more remunerative than the work of an avant-garde f…

IF - and the thing is wildly possible - the charge of writing nonsense were ever brought against the author of this brief but instructive poem, it would be bas…