The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose.

In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the home of the vivisect, in spite of Keble College, and the tramways, and the sporting prints, Oxford still remains the most beautiful thing in England, and nowhere else are life and art so exquisitely blended, so perfectly made one.

It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.

All love is true, but not all truth ... is love?

Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train.