How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

Before Turner there was no fog in London.

I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the mob, I have no desire to be a popular novelist. It is far too easy.

I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob. It is through the voice of one crying in the wilderness that the ways of the gods must be prepared.

There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.

I never saw so many well-dressed, well-fed, business-looking Bohemians in my life.