The English country-gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.

My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.

To be in love is to surpass one's self.

Nothing worth knowing can be taught.

The fatal errors of life are not due to man's being unreasonable: an unreasonable moment may be one's finest moment. They are due to man's being logical.

The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.

When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable.