Who said “If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought…”?

“Censors tend to do what only psychotics do: they confuse reality with illusion.”

“I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.”

“The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.”

“Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.”

“If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how, then, with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books, should be forbid.”

“Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.”

“Other nations use ''force''; we Britons alone use ''Might.''”

“Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.”

“Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.”

“That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down.”

“All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.”