Get married, but never to a man who is home all day.

A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other.

Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination.

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

Fine art is the only teacher except torture.

Give me the artist who breathes it like a native, and goes about his work in it as quietly as a common man goes about his ordinary business. Mozart did so; and that is why I like him. Even if I did not, I should pretend to; for a taste in his music is a mark of caste among musicians, and should be worn, like a tall hat, by the amateur who wishes to pass for a true Brahmin.

Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.