The real weakness of England lies, not in incomplete armaments or unfortified coasts, not in the poverty that creeps through sunless lanes, or the drunkenness that brawls in loathsome courts, but simply in the fact that her ideals are emotional and not intellectual.

It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love.

Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments.

The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world’s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer.

The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.