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FRANK's Components of Creativity
That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you...
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He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the...
There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.Source: Books On Trial.--...
Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and...
Particularly against books the Home Secretary is. If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least...
There aren't many left like him nowadays, what with education and whisky the price it is. More about this quote...
I came to the conclusion many years ago that almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic...
I'm one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.Source: Decline and...
Enclosing every thin man, there's a fat man demanding elbow-room.Source:...
I think to be oversensitive about clich?s is like being oversensitive about table manners. More about this quote...
We class schools you see, into four grades: Leading School, First-rate School, Good School, and...
I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn't...
It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of...
I expect you'll be becoming a schoolmaster sir. That's what most of the gentlemen does sir, that gets sent down for...
Don't give your opinions about Art and the Purpose of Life. They are of little interest and, anyway, you can't...
We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.Source: Dr. Fagan, in Decline...
The human mind is inspired enough when it comes to inventing horrors; it is when it tries to invent a Heaven that it...
What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?Source:...
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.Source: The Diaries of Evelyn Waugh, 26 Mar...
Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting...
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