Feeling a tremendous rakehell, and not liking myself much for it, and feeling rather a good chap for not liking myself much for it, and not liking myself at all for feeling rather a good chap. |
He was of the faith chiefly in the sense that the church he currently did not attend was Catholic |
I enjoy talking to you more than anybody else because I never feel I am giving myself away and so can admit to shady, dishonest, crawling, cowardly, unjust, arrogant, snobbish, lecherous, perverted and generally shameful feelings that I don't want anybody else to know about; but most of all because I am always on the verge of violent laughter when talking to you. If you were here, I keep thinking, we would spend the time in talk and drink and smoke and I should be laughing a lot of the time, and I should be enjoying myself a lot of the time. |
If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing. |
It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children. |
Laziness has become the chief characteristic of journalism, displacing incompetence |
No pleasure is worth giving up for the sake of two more years in a geriatric home at Weston-super-Mare |
One of the great benefits of organised religion is that you can be forgiven your sins, which must be a wonderful thing . .I mean, I carry my sins around with me, there's nobody there to forgive them. |
Outside every fat man there was an even fatter man trying to close in |
Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure. |
The ideal of brotherhood of man, the building of the Just City, is one that cannot be discarded without lifelong feelings of disappointment and loss. But, if we are to live in the real world, discard it we must. Its very nobility makes the results of its breakdown doubly horrifying, and it breaks down, as it always will, not by some external agency but because it cannot work. |
There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones. |
Women don't seem to think it's good enough; They write about it |