If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For the rest: my loves, my hates, down even to my deepest desires, I can no longer say whether these emotions are my own, or stolen from those I once so desperately wished to be.

We possess nothing certainly except the past

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.

Other nations use 'force' we Britons alone use 'Might'.

We can trace almost all the disasters of English history to the influence of Wales.

How ungenerously in later life we disclaim the virtuous moods of our youth, living in retrospect long, summer days of unreflecting dissipation.