Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.

There is a fatality about good resolutions – that they are always made too late

The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.

It is always the unreadable that occurs.

I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in silver mirrors. Later on, one sees the Gorgon's head, and one suffers, because it does not turn one to stone.

The first thing that struck me on landing in America was that if the Americans are not the most well-dressed people in the world, they are the most comfortably dressed.

Society, civilized society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating. It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals, and, in its opinion, the highest respectability is of much less value than the possession of a good chef.