When the loo paper gets thicker and the writing paper thinner, it's always a bad sign, at home.

-Mitford, Nancy Freeman
  Love in a Cold Climate, pt.2, ch.2.

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him12 ounces of paper and ink and glueöyou sell him a whole new life.

-Morley, Christopher Darlington
Recalled on his death, 28 Mar1957.

Leave not a foot of verse, a foot of stone, A Page, a Grave, that they can call their own; But spread, my sons, your glory thin or thick, On passive paper, or on solid brick.

-Pope, Alexander
  The Dunciad, bk.4, l.127^30.

To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink. For a shilling the Bruddersford United AFC offered you Conflict and Art.

-Priestley,J(ohn) B(oynton)
  The Good Companions, bk.1, ch.1.

Hidden in wonder and snow, or sudden with summer, This land stares at the sun in a huge silence Endlessly repeating something we cannot hear. Inarticulate, arctic, Not written on by history, emptyas paper, It leans away from the world with songs in its lakes Older than love, and lost in the miles. 722

-Scott, F(rancis) R(eginald)
  Of Canada.'Laurentian Shield'.

It is to be noted that when any part of this paper appears dull there is a design in it.

-Stein, Gertrude
  In theTatler, no.38,7 Jul.

The hand that signed the paper felled a city; Five sovereign fingers taxed the breath, Doubled the globe of dead and halved a country; These five kings did a king to death.

-Thomas, Dylan Marlais
  'The HandThat Signed the Paper Felled a City'.

In1945 we did much more than draft an international agreement among 50 nations.Weset downonpaper the only principles that will enable civilized human life to continue to survive on this globe.

-Truman, Harry S
  On the10th anniversary of the United Nations, 24 Jun.

Breakfast is the one meal at which it is perfectly good manners to read the paper.

-Vanderbilt, Amy
  AmyVanderbilt's Complete Book of Etiquette.

Bourgeois society is infected by monomania: the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well onpaper, suchasnational budgets or industrial balance sheets.

-Weil, Simone
La condition ouvrie'  re,'La rationalisation' (published1951).

You can see in pantomime the puppets fumbling with their slips of paper†seethem pickup their phone†see the noiseless, ceaseless capital of memoranda, in touch with Calcutta, in touch with Reykjavik, and always fooling with something.

-White, E(lwyn) B(rooks)
  On office windows at twilight. Here Is NewYork.

A writer of talent needs onlya typewriter and paper, a painter only needs brushes, canvas and paint, but I need a million dollars or moreto be in business.That's a hell of a business to be in.

-Winner, Langdon
  In the Observer Magazine,7 Jul.