People seldom tell the truths that are worth telling. We ought to choose our truths as carefully as we choose our lies and to select our virtues with as much thought as we bestow upon the selection of our enemies.

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

Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern.

It is art, and art only, that reveals us to ourselves.

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.