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

Sometimes I feel that I am a natural born genius in a field of human endeavor that hasn't been invented yet

What a lurid life Oscar Wilde does lead - so full of extraordinary incidents. What a chance for the memoir writers of the next century

It is a part of English hypocrisy or English reserve, that whilst we are fluent enough in grumbling about small inconveniences, we insist on making light of any great difficulties or grief's that may beset us.

No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

Every one, even the richest and most munificent of men, pays much by cheque more light-heartedly than he pays little in specie.

Only mediocrity can be trusted to be always at its best. Genius must always have lapses proportionate to its triumphs.