All criticism is a form of autobiography

You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

The youth of the present day are quite monstrous. They have absolutely no respect for dyed hair.

To know anything about oneself one must know all about others.

It is personalities not principles that move the age.

I find I have, and a heart doesn’t suit me, Windermere. Somehow it doesn’t go with modern dress. It makes one look old.

The crude commercialism of America, its materialising spirit, its indifference to the poetical side of things, and its lack of imagination and of high unattainable ideals, are entirely due to that country having adopted for its national hero a man who, according to his own confession, was incapable of telling a lie, and it is not too much to say that the story of George Washington and the cherry-tree has done more harm, and in a shorter space of time, than any other moral tale in the whole of literature.