I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.

It is a much cleverer thing to talk nonsense than to listen to it.

That very concentration of vision and intensity of purpose which is the characteristic of the artistic temperament is in itself a mode of limitation. To those who are preoccupied with the beauty of form nothing else seems of much importance.

We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.

Marco Polo had seen the inhabitants of Zipangu place rose-colored pearls in the mouths of the dead. A sea-monster had been enamoured of the pearl that the diver brought to King Perozes, and had slain the thief, and mourned for seven moons over its loss.

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

After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.