Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable.

I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man.

The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.

Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.