You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

The novels I planned to write were never going to be funny books about Jews. They were going to be country house books. Only later on could I write what I knew I was best at writing about.

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

Politics have no relation to morals.