The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.

Action is limited and relative. Unlimited and absolute is the vision of him who sits at ease and watches, who walks in loneliness and dreams.

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

You can fake intelligence, but you can't fake wit.

I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.

George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar.