Imagination is a good horse to carry you over the ground—not a flying carpet to set you free from probability.

The sight of people getting married exhilarates me; I think that they are ding a fine thing, and I admire them for it.

The egotist is all surface underneath is a pulpy mess and a lot of self doubt. But the egoist may be yielding and even deferential in things he doesn't consider important; in anything that touches his core, he is remorseless.

Music is like wine..the less people know about it, the sweeter they like it.

The drama may be called that part of theatrical art which lends itself most readily to intellectual discussion. What is left is theater.

The really great eccentrics are all inimitable; they are not possessed by a single oddity; they are, in their deepest selves, unlike the generality of mankind.

I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.

She was a romantic, and as I had never met a female romantic before it was a delight to me to explore her emotions. She wanted to know all about me, and I told her as honestly as I could; but as I was barely twenty, and a romantic myself, I know now that I lied in every word I uttered – lied not in fact but in emphasis, in colour, and in intention.