A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.

it is as unseeing to ask what is the use of poetry as it would be to ask what is the use of religion.

Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.

The poet is the complete lover of mankind.

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.

What the reporters are like! They are mad with excitement at the thought of my approaching demise. Kind Sister Farquhar, my nurse, spends much of her time in throwing them downstairs. But one got in the other day, and asked me if I mind the fact that I must die.