I never play cricket. It requires one to assume such indecent postures.

Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.

You and I will always be friends." "Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that.

Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars.

Things are because we see them, and what we see, and how we see it, depends on the Arts that influenced us. To look at a thing is very different from seeing a thing. One does not see anything until one sees its beauty. Then, and then only, does it comes into existence.

I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the smallest sense of humanity. Moral people, as they are termed, are simple beasts.

A true gentleman is one who is never intentionally rude.