Read moreBeauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due – she reminds us too much of a prima donna.
Read moreIf there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.
Read moreThe final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot define.
Read moreBeethoven’s Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.
Read moreI have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I’d like to be.
Read moreAt the side of the everlasting why, is a yes, and a yes, and a yes.