It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.

You can rave about Stravinsky without the slightest risk of being classified as a lunatic by the next generation .

All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.

Now of all the idealist abominations that make society pestiferous I doubt if there be any so mean as that of forcing self-sacrifice on a woman under the pretense that she likes it.

My heart, my heart, be whole and free: Love is thine only enemy.

If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man for twenty years without finding out that he hates you like poison, you would soon have your eyes opened. There we do unkind things in a kind way: we say bitter things in a sweet voice: we always give our friends chloroform when we tear them to pieces.

Christmas is forced upon a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press; on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred.