“How pathetic it is to describe these things which can't truly be described.”

“I now know that if you describe things as better as they are, you are considered to be romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you are called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you are called a satirist.”

“Isn't there such a thing as social liberation?"
"Of course there is," said the Master.
"How would you describe it?"
"Liberation from the need to belong to the herd."”

“There is always something about our feeling for beautiful things which can neither be described nor communicated, which is unshared and unshareable.”

“It's probably a merciful thing that pain is impossible to describe from memory”

“I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.”

“I don't think that would be entirely unfair. There are some things which get on one's nerves and some things that don't. And I'm, to use a rather journalistic word, allergic to the things that are typically American. I think that's fairly natural to someone who has just been described as a Tory and is always ready to describe himself as a High Tory.”

“One of the things we’ve forgotten, is the importance of protocols and not describing them accurately.”

“Psychology is a more tricky field, in which even outstanding authorities have been known to run in circles, 'describing things which everyone knows in language which no one understands.”

“The best way to describe anyone is to give an example of the kind of thing he would do.”