It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait. - Max Beerbohm

I am a Tory Anarchist. I should like every one to go about doing just as he pleased — short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed.

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 'form' to literature. It strongly defines its content.

The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.