All reformers are bachelors. - George Moore

The public will accept a masterpiece, but it will not accept an attempt to write a masterpiece.

Love — but not marriage. Marriage means a four-post bed and papa and mamma between eleven and twelve. Love is aspiration: transparencies, colour, light, a sense of the unreal. But a wife — you know all about her — who her father was, who her mother was, what she thinks of you and her opinion of the neighbours over the way. Where, then, is the dream?

The wrong way always seems the more reasonable.