Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians.

To get into the best society, nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people - that is all!

Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.

It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.

To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies.

One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.

Walt Whitman and Emerson are the poets who have given the world more than anyone else. Perhaps Whitman is not so widely read in England, but England never appreciates a poet until he is dead.