The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistible. He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.

Good intentions have been the ruin of the world. The only people who have achieved anything have been those who have had no intentions at all.

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed.

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive