my credo is very short. Its first article is art - and its second is art - and its third is art!

We enjoy the great prophets of literature most when we have not yet lived enough to realize all they tell us.

I loved nearly all my teachers; but it was not till I went home to live at Oxford, in 1867, that I awoke intellectually to a hundred interests and influences that begin much earlier nowadays to affect any clever child.

my credo is very short. Its first article is art - and its second is art - and its third is art!

Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

How little those who are schoolgirls of today can realize what it was to be a schoolgirl in the fifties or the early sixties of the last century!

As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.