In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.

To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.

God and other artists are always a little obscure.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as a citizen.

Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.