You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages.

We have quite the same ideas. No; I think our ideas are quite different. But he has been most pleasant.

It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression that gives reality to things.

In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the home of the vivisect, in spite of Keble College, and the tramways, and the sporting prints, Oxford still remains the most beautiful thing in England, and nowhere else are life and art so exquisitely blended, so perfectly made one.

Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.