I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.

I never take any notice to what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.

Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.

A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art.

If God really wanted to punish, he'd answer all our prayers.

The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.

The gods bestowed on Max [Beerbohm] the gift of perpetual old age.