Most women are not as young as they are painted.

A quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral.

You will find that the woman who is really kind to dogs is always one who has failed to inspire sympathy in men.

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

Golf: The most ... perfect expression of National Stupidity.

The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.

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.