I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.

The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation... they do not want to attract attention.

The reason why Matthew Arnold, to my feeling, fails entirely as a poet (though no doubt his ideas were good - at least, I am told they were) is that he had no sense of touch whatsoever. Nothing made any impression on his skin. He could feel neither the shape nor the texture of a poem with his hands.

I have never, in all my life, been so odious as to regard myself as 'superior' to any living being, human or animal. I just walked alone - as I have always walked alone.

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.

I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.

One's own surroundings means so much to one, when one is feeling miserable.