It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words.

If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity.

There are two ways of disliking poetry, one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.

Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses - once.

The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.