I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

I live in terror of not being misunderstood.

Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.

We women adore failures. They lean on us.

It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realise his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the steps of most artists is that they realise their ideal too absolutely. For, when the ideal is realised, it is robbed of its wonder and its mystery, and becomes simply a new starting-point for an ideal that is other than itself.

When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.

It is only through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; Through Art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.