Sometimes she went so far as to wish that she should find herself in a difficult position, so that she might have the pleasure of being as heroic as ….

...The peculiar air of Oxford-the air of liberty to care for the things of the mind assured and secured by machinery which is in itself a satisfactio….

She is written in a foreign tongue..

Really, universally, relations stop nowhere, and the exquisite problem of the artist is eternally but to draw, by a geometry of his own, the circle w….

Most English talk is a quadrille in a sentry-box..

We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generosity..

England always seems to me like a man swimming with his clothes on his head..

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind..

[Thomas Henry] Huxley is a very genial, comfortable being-yet with none of the noisy and windy geniality of some folks here, whom you find with their….

There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition..

One can't judge till one's forty; before that we're too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant..

The house of fiction has in short not one window, but a million, ... but they are, singly, as nothing without the posted presence of the watcher..

I have only to let myself go! So I have said all my life, yet I have never fully done it..

No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church, no clergy, no army, no diplomatic service, no country gentlemen, no palaces, ….

Happy you poets who can be present and so present by a simple flicker of your genius, and not, like the clumsier race, have to laya train and pile up….

Don’t underestimate the value of irony—it is extremely valuable..

It's time to start living the life you've imagined..

I'm yours for ever--for ever and ever. Here I stand; I'm as firm as a rock. If you'll only trust me, how little you'll be disappointed. Be mine as I ….

In art economy is always beauty..

A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals..

It is altogether an extraordinary growing, swarming, glittering, pushing, chattering, good-natured, cosmopolitan place, and perhaps in some ways the ….