"He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays."
"It is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologize to one in private for what they have written against one in public."
"A chemist on each side will approach the frontier with a bottle."
"In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust."
"I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime."
"Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us."
"As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn't become prominent enough to have any enemies, but none of his friends like him."
"No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide. I can quite understand how any ordinary critic would be strongly prejudiced against a work that was accompanied by a premature and unnecessary panegyric from the publisher. A publisher is simply a useful middle-man. It is not for him to anticipate the verdict of criticism."
"You should study the Peerage, Gerald. It is the one book a young man about town should know thoroughly, and it is the best thing in fiction the English have ever done."
"The mind of a the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value."