Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art.

Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.

No publisher should ever express an opinion of the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide.

The job of the critic is to report to us his moods.

I don't like Switzerland; it has produced nothing but theologians and waiters.

To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.