In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

Never met such a Gorgon . . . I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell is one. In any case, she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair.

There are two ways of disliking poetry, one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

I live in terror of not being misunderstood.

the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one center of pain.