We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
The real weakness of England lies, not in incomplete armaments or unfortified coasts, not in the poverty that creeps through sunless lanes, or the drunkenness that brawls in loathsome courts, but simply in the fact that her ideals are emotional and not intellectual.
The morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.
You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.
It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it
I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.