As if a woman ever loved a man for his virtue.

I knew that suffering did not enoble; it degraded. It made men selfish, petty and suspicious. It absorbed them in small things...it made them less than men; and I wrote ferociously that we learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.

It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest.

He found that it was easy to make a heroic gesture, but hard to abide by its results.

Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, depreciating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room.

Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.