A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating.

My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.

Sometimes, the unnecessary is necessary.

It is quite true that I have worshipped you with far more romance of feeling than a man usually gives to a friend. Somehow, I had never loved a woman. I suppose I never had time. Perhaps, as Harry says, a really grande passion is the privilege of those who have nothing to do, and that is the use of the idle classes in a country

You know what a woman's curiosity is.