The languor of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost!

Of the many smells of Athens two seem to me the most characteristic - that of garlic, bold and deadly like acetylene gas. and that of dust, soft and warm and caressing like tweed.

I never can understand how two men can write a book together; to me that's like three people getting together to have a baby.

Beerbohm was a genius of the purest kind. He stands at the summit of his art.

Now we shall both be alone, and I shall have no way of making you understand.' 'I don't want to make it easier for you,' I said; 'I hope your heart may break; but I do understand.

Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.

...its a rather pleasant change when all your life you've had people looking after you, to have someone to look after yourself. Only of course it has to be someone pretty hopeless to need looking after by me.