Men seek but one thing in life - their pleasure.

But Philip was impatient with himself; he called to mind his idea of the pattern of life: the unhappiness he had suffered was no more than part of a decoration which was elaborate and beautiful; he told himself strenuously that he must accept with gaiety everything, dreariness and excitement, pleasure and pain, because it added to the richness of the design.

Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.

Clearly much that seemed valid seemed so only because he had been taught it from earliest youth.

We are like people living in a country whose language they know so little that, with all manner of beautiful and profound things to say, they are condemned to the banalities of the conversation manual. Their brain is seething with ideas, and they can only tell you that the umbrella of the gardener's aunt is in the house.

Refecting on the high divorce rate in America as contrasted with England "American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers

Art, unless it leads to right action, is no more than the opium of an intelligentsia.