Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

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.

There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school.

I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow's feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.

My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.

The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary.