To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be.

I am a Tory anarchist. I should like everyone to go about doing just as he pleased - short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed.

It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.

True dandyism is the result of an artistic temperament working upon a fine body within the wide limits of fashion.

Reverence is a good thing, and part of its value is that the more we revere a man, the more sharply are we struck by anything in him (and there is always much) that is incongruous with his greatness.

Beauty and the lust for learning have yet to be allied.

The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.