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I design plain truth for plain people.

News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read. And it’s only news until he’s read it. After that it’s dead.

‘Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole’ … ‘Yes,’ said the Managing Editor. ‘That must be good style.’

Up to a point, Lord Copper.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the colour purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.

No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.

The composition of a tragedy requires testicles.

We owe respect to the living; to the dead we owe only truth.

All styles are good except the boring kind.

[Men] use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to conceal their thoughts.

Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas. Lucky is he who has been able to understand the causes of things.

Experto credite.

Spiritus intus alit, totamque infusa per artus

I cannot help it that my pictures do not sell. Nevertheless the time will come when people will see that they are worth more than the price of the paint.

The artist brings something into the world that didn’t exist before, and … he does it without destroying something else.

The artist brings something into the world that didn’t exist before, and … he does it without destroying something else.

Laughter … the most civilized music in the world.

As to the Adjective: when in doubt, strike it out.

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy; foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.

There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.

Always be sincere, even if you don’t mean it.

I never give them [the public] hell. I just tell the truth, and they think it is hell.

Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.