Really, if the lower orders don't set a good example, what on earth is the use of them?

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

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

The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it. To the great poet, there is only one method of music - his own. To the great painter, there is only one manner of painting - that which he himself employs. The aesthetic critic, and the aesthetic critic alone, can appreciate all forms and all modes. It is to him that Art makes her appeal.

The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.