The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to bad end |
The loveliest face in all the world will not please you if you see it suddenly eye to eye, at a distance of half an inch from your own. |
The lower one's vitality, the more sensitive one is to great art. |
The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all. |
The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends |
There is always something rather absurd about the past |
There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success. |
To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature |
To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine. |
To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine. |
To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving. |
To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be |
To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. |
To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. A conceited man is satisfied with the effect he produces on himself. |
Undergraduates owe their happiness chiefly to the consciousness that they are no longer at school. The nonsense which was knocked out of them at school is all put gently back at Oxford or Cambridge. |