Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.

I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

If I hadn't believed it, then I wouldn't have seen it

Well, I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.

The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it.