I would have felt more comfortable on a girder fifty floors above the street, catching white-hot rivets in a pail.
when I spoke of having a drink, it was a euphemism for having a whole flock of them.
Employed as I had been employing it, liquor is a fixative of old patterns.
it is a waste of time to ask more of people than they have to give.
The real nature of an ethic is that it does not become an ethic unless and until it goes into action.
Whatever the rest of the world thinks of the English gentleman, the English lady regards him apprehensively as something between God and a goat and equally formidable on both scores.
The soup, thin and dark and utterly savorless, tasted as if it had been drained out of the umbrella stand.
American business, while it does not frown on helping the human race, frowns on people who start right in helping the human race without first proving that they can sell things to it.
children are an embarrassment to a business civilization. A business society needs children for the same reason that a nomadic or a pastoral society needs them - to perpetuate itself. Unfortunately, however, children are of no use to a business society until they have almost reached physical maturity.
Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.
Englishwomen's shoes look as if they had been made by someone who had often heard shoes described, but had never seen any.
From a purely tourist standpoint, Oxford is overpowering, being so replete with architecture and history and anecdote that the visitor's mind feels dribbling and helpless, as with an over-large mouthful of nougat.
I was so embarrassed I could feel my nerves curling like bacon over a hot fire.
people coming away from a session with Dr. S. usually looked as if they had had fifty minutes on the anvil with an apprentice blacksmith.
democracy produces both heroes and villains, but it differs from a fascist state in that it does not produce a hero who is a villain.
the conversation whipped gaily around the table like rags in a high wind.
in the comparatively short time between my childhood and my daughter's, the business society has ceased urging people to produce and is now exerting its very considerable influence to get them to consume.
It is impossible to betray another man's child - for whatever reason - without also betraying one's own. To do less than justice to another man's child, no matter who that man is, is to impair by that much the chances one's own children have for a life of meaning and purpose.
Passionately prejudiced people always turn out, under scrutiny, to be people who cannot get along on a footing of equality with anyone.
In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.
A lady getting a missing belt back from the cleaner couldn't have been more surprised and pleased.
The attitude of the English towards English history reminds one a good deal of the attitude of a Hollywood director towards love.
The integration of the Negro into American society is one of the most exciting challenges to self-development and self-mastery that any nation of people ever faced.
The people who are unprejudiced, but who ... feel it is so hopeless there is no use trying ... probably do just as much damage to the emotional atmosphere in which we are facing the problem as the fanatical Negrophobes.
The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.
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