You are only young once. At the time it seems endless, and is gone in a flash; and then for a very long time you are old.

I cannot love people in the country, I discover, because there is always this danger that they may be acquaintances, with all the perils and choleras of acquaintance implicit in them; but in London they seem as charming as rabbits.

All encounters with children are touched with social embarrassment.

For the last six weeks I have found myself pestered by some characters in search of an author.

In the morning I had decided that henceforth I only cared for easy loves. It is so degrading to have to persuade people into liking one, or one's works.

[John Craske] painted like a man giving witness under oath to a wild story.

when the German propaganda tries to be winsome it is like a clown with homicidal mania - ludicrous and terrifying both at once.