“About this business of being a gentleman: I paid so heavily for the fourteen years of my gentleman’s education that I feel entitled, now and then, to get some sort of return.”

As you are woman, so be lovely: As you are lovely, so be various, Merciful as constant, constant as various, So be mine, as I yours for ever.

Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers.

Faults in English prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought, patience or goodwill.

The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good.

I made no more protests. What was the use of struggling against fate.

No honest theologian therefore can deny that his acceptance of Jesus as Christ logically binds every Christian to a belief in reincarnation – in Elias case (who was later John the Baptist) at least.

There’s no money in poetry, but then there’s no poetry in money, either.

But that so many scholars are barbarians does not much matter so long as a few of them are ready to help with their specialized knowledge the few independent thinkers, that is to say the poets, who try to to keep civilization alive.

The function of poetry is religious invocation of the muse; its use is the experience of mixed exaltation and horror that her presence excites.

This seems to me a philosophical question, and therefore irrelevant, question. A poet’s destiny is to love.

Hate is a fear, and fear is rot That cankers root and fruit alike, Fight cleanly then, hate not, fear not, Strike with no madness when you strike.

Hardly one soldier in a hundred was inspired by religious feeling of even the crudest kind. It would have been difficult to remain religious in the trenches even if one had survived the irreligion of the training battalion at home.

As was the custom in such cases, the pear tree was charged with murder and sentenced to be uprooted and burned.

What we now call “finance” is, I hold, an intellectual perversion of what began as warm human love.

When I’m killed, don’t think of me Buried there in Cambrin Wood, Nor as in Zion think of me With the Intolerable Good. And there’s one thing that I know well, I’m damned if I’ll be damned to Hell!

There is no such thing as good writing, only good rewriting.

He’s shy, he talks to her only. She’s bold, she listens to him only.

Breathe. Dream. Grow. Your soul knows true hearts must be bold.

No matter how much you’re going to be criticized or no matter how big of a risk it is, the boldness is the thing that helps you.

Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.

Not unafraid, but moving a tiny bravery is a large one always always always this.

For me, a script has to be convincing, bold, and experimental. It needs to overpower all my senses.

Experience has taught me to tell the difference between a man that wants to tame me, mute my voice and claim me, and a man that is bold enough to let me be free.

Now I really feel the landscape, I can be bold and include every tone of pink and blue: it’s enchanting, it’s delicious, and I hope it will please you.