As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal.

The critic who justly admires all kinds of things simultaneously cannot love any one of them.

To destroy is still the strongest instinct of our nature.

"After all," as a pretty girl once said to me, "women are a sex by themselves, so to speak."

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

She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.

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