We shall know what things are of overmastering importance when they have overmastered us.

Oh, well, faint heart never won so much as a scrap of paper

But it is the mark of all movements, however well-intentioned, that their pioneers tend, by much lashing of themselves into excitement, to lose sight of the obvious.

It's very inconvenient being a sculptor. It's like playing the double-bass; one's so handicapped by one's baggage.

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.

Nothing goes so well with a hot fire and buttered crumpets as a wet day without and a good dose of comfortable horrors within. The heavier the lashing of the rain and the ghastlier the details, the better the flavour seems to be.

What? Sunday morning in an English family and no sausages? God bless my soul, what's the world coming to, eh?