I should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals.

Art should never be popular.

A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.

The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.

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.

Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay.

The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life.