The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.

Schopenhauer has analysed the pessimism that characterize modern thought, but Hamlet invented it

One should always be in love.

He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don't call that leading an idle life, do you?

Rugby is a game for barbarians played by gentlemen. Football is a game for gentlemen played by barbarians.

For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us.

When I went to America I had two secretaries, one for autographs, one for locks of hair. Within six months the one had died of writer's cramp, the other was completely bald.