I have lived too long in foreign parts

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

The deepest quality of a work of art will always be the quality of the mind of the producer...No good novel will ever proceed from a superficial mind.

The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.

Nothing, of course, will ever take the place of the good old fashion of 'liking' a work of art or not liking it; the more improved criticism will not abolish that primitive, that ultimate, test.

I call people rich when they're able to meet the requirements of their imagination.

An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.