It is fatal to be appreciated in one's own time.

The terrible newly imported American doctrine that everyone ought to do something.

A golf course outside a big town serves an excellent purpose in that it segregates, as though a concentration camp, all the idle and idiot well-to-do.

The only difference between an artist and a lunatic is, perhaps, that the artist has the restraint or courtesy to conceal the intensity of his obsession from all except those similarly afflicted.

My education [takes place] during the holidays from Eton.

Poetry is like fish: if it's fresh, it's good; if it's stale, it's bad; and if you're not certain, try it on the cat.

We attended stables, as we attended church, in our best clothes, thereby no doubt showing the degree of respect due to horses.