"A man does not buy his wife a fur coat to keep her warm, but to keep her pleasant."

"You will recognize, my boy, the first sign of age: it is when you go out into the streets of London and realize for t…"

"By its truth and absolute integrity — since Tolstoy I know of no writing so crystal clear — "Jean-Christophe" is the …"

"Bad art has always been used as an escape from life; good art admits of no escape and forces a man to see himself in …"

"I nothing know but that I nothing know, And therefore I sing merrily. I sit and watch the thronging moments go, Each …"

"of an event is unlikely to be interesting after it and this may be the reason why my prophetic utterances regarding t…"

"In February 1911 Gilbert had joined the , proposed by , the playwright, and seconded by and Reginald Geard."

"A thing is no sooner out of fashion than it begins to appear antique; and the literary movements of the are already d…"