All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing.

One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.

Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.

No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires.

It is a poor cause which has to be lied for regularly.

The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method.

Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.

Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it; materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.

Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.

There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience.