Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.

What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul.

The only link between Literature and the Drama left to us in England at the present moment is the bill of the play.

The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.

I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

At every single moment of one's life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been.

It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.