Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Never buy anything simply because it is expensive.

I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice.

It is only through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; Through Art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.

As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.

The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.

Medievalism, with its saints and martyrs, its love of self-torture, its wild passion for wounding itself, its gashing with knives, and its whipping with rods - Medievalism is real Christianity, and the medieval Christ is the real Christ.