For people who like that kind of thing, this is the kind of thing they like.

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

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.

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

Every kind of writing is hypocritical.

Have you noticed ... there is never any third act in a nightmare? They bring you to a climax of terror and then leave you there. They are the work of poor dramatists.

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.