Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.

There is in the human race some dark spirit of recalcitrance, always pulling us in the direction contrary to that in which we are reasonably expected to go.

By its very looseness, by its way of evoking rather than defining, suggesting rather than saying, English is a magnificent vehicle for emotional poetry.

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

Only the insane take themselves seriously.

Every kind of writing is hypocritical.

The loveliest face in all the world will not please you if you see it suddenly eye to eye, at a distance of half an inch from your own.