Unfortunately sometimes one can't do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.

Well, you know when people are no good at anything else they become writers.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

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.

An art is only great and significant if it is one that all may enjoy. The art of a clique is but a plaything.

Music-hall songs provide the dull with wit, just as proverbs provide them with wisdom.

I did not believe him capable of love. That is an emotion in which tenderness is an essential part, but Strickland had no tenderness either for himself or for others; there is in love a sense of weakness, a desire to protect, an eagerness to do good and to give pleasure--if not unselfishness, at all events a selfishness which marvellously conceals itself; it has in it a certain diffidence.