"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.

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 distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.

Of course we all know that Morris was a wonderful all-round man, but the act of walking round him has always tired me.

Not philosophy, after all, not humanity, just sheer joyous power of song, is the primal thing in poetry.

To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.