I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

Shakespeare might have met Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the white streets of London, or seen the serving-men of rival houses bite their thumbs at each other in the open square; but Hamlet came out of his soul, and Romeo out of his passion.

A man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions. Our lives revolve in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses. I have just learnt this, and much else with it, from Lord Goring. And I will not spoil your life for you, nor see you spoil it as a sacrifice to me, a useless sacrifice.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

There is a fatality about good resolutions – that they are always made too late

Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.