He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize

The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms.

The gods bestowed on Max [Beerbohm] the gift of perpetual old age.

Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .

Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.