Most women are not so young as they are painted.

I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford University|Oxford that has made me insufferable.

The most perfect caricature is that which, on a small surface, with the simplest means, most accurately exaggerates, to the highest point, the peculiarities of a human being, at his most characteristic moment in the most beautiful manner.

As a teacher, as a propagandist, George Bernard Shaw|Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal.

The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.

Lift latch, step in, be welcome, Sir,Albeit to see you I’m unglad.

Only the insane take themselves quite seriously.

Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint.

She was a young person whose reveries never were in retrospect. For her past was no treasury of distinct memories, all hoarded and classified, some brighter than others and more highly valued. All memories were for her but as notes in one fused radiance that followed her and made more luminous the pathway of her future.