"Most women are not so young as they are painted."

"To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine."

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

"The most perfect caricature is that which, on a small surface, with the simplest means, most accurately exaggerates, …"

"As a teacher, as a propagandist, Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immo…"

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

"Only the insane take themselves quite seriously."

"There is much virtue in a window. It is to a human being as a frame is to a painting, as a proscenium to a play, as '…"

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

"The Nonconformist Conscience makes cowards of us all."