[London] is sentimental and tolerant. The attitude to foreigners is like the attitude to dogs: Dogs are neither human nor British, but so long as you keep them under control, give them their exercise, feed them, pat them, you will find their wild emotions are amusing, and their characters interesting.

There is more magic in sin if it is not committed.

Sooner or later, the great men turn out to be all alike. They never stop working. They never lose a minute. It is very depressing.

Among the masked dandies of Edwardian comedy, Max Beerbohm is the most happily armored by a deep and almost innocent love of himself as a work of art.

Queen Victoria - a mixture of national landlady and actress.

The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life.

[London] is sentimental and tolerant. The attitude to foreigners is like the attitude to dogs: Dogs are neither human nor British, but so long as you keep them under control, give them their exercise, feed them, pat them, you will find their wild emotions are amusing, and their characters interesting.