To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.

And if it feels good... Feel it!

There are few things easier than to live badly and die well.

Medievalism, with its saints and martyrs, its love of self-torture, its wild passion for wounding itself, its gashing with knives, and its whipping with rods - Medievalism is real Christianity, and the medieval Christ is the real Christ.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

All criticism is a form of autobiography

The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.