Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations.

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous.

All thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction. If you think of anything, you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of.

I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb.

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

Every American bride is taken there [Niagara Falls], and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life.