What is wrong with the prosaic Englishman is what is wrong with the prosaic men of all countries: stupidity.

The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.

You have no right to say that I am not sincere. I have found a happiness in art that real life has never given me. I am intensely in earnest about art. There is is a magic and mystery in art that you know nothing of.

It is said that every people has the Government it deserves. It is more to the point that every Government has the electorate it deserves; for the orator of the front bench can edify or debauch an ignorant electorate at will.

When God created man and woman, he did not take a patent. That's why any imbecile has been able to do so ever since.

I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.