He had found the thing which the modern people call Impressionism, which is another name for that final scepticism which can find no floor to the universe.

Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem".

Free verse'? You may as well call sleeping in a ditch 'free architecture'.

The aesthete aims at harmony rather than beauty. If his hair does not match the mauve sunset against which he is standing, he hurriedly dyes his hair another shade of mauve. If his wife does not go with the wall-paper, he gets a divorce.

He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.

I entertain a private suspicion that physical sports were much more really effective and beneficent when they were not taken quite so seriously. One of the first essentials of sport being healthy is that it should be delightful; it is rapidly becoming a false religion with austerities and prostrations.

And though St. John saw many strange monsters in his vision, he saw no creature so wild as one of his own commentators.