We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.

Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people and the Gypsies.

Those who have money think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know it is money.

The cliché is dead poetry. English, being the language of an imaginative race, abounds in clichés, so that English literature is always in danger of being poisoned by its own secretions.

Every writer and artist wonders what in the world people of other professions can find to live for.

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

The only test of work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own.