Don't run down dyed hair and painted faces. There is an extraordinary charm in them, sometimes.
Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.
The worst thing to do with success, is to boast about it.
Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art
Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic
The dim roar of London was like the bourdon note of a distant organ