Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.

We have long passed the Victorian Era when asterisks were followed after a certain interval by a baby.

There is no cruelty greater than a woman's to a man who loves her and whom she does not love; she has no kindness then, no tolerance even, she has only an insane irritation.

I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to the universities go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene ... They are scum.

Perhaps it would have been possible to see in him a new Prometheus...the hero who for the good of mankind exposes himself to the agonies of the damned...undaunted by failure, by an unceasing effort of courage holding despair at bay, doggedly persistent in the face of self-doubt, which is the artist's bitterest enemy.

I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.

He did not care upon what terms he satisfied his passion. He had even a mad, melodramatic idea to drug her.