35 quotes
All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.
Zuleika Dobson (1911)
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.
And Even Now (1920)
The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.
Zuleika Dobson (1911)
Most women are not so young as they are painted.
A Defense of Cosmetics (1895)
Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint.
Zuleika Dobson (1911)
It needs no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.
Zuleika Dobson (1911)
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
And Even Now (1920)
Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.
Zuleika Dobson (1911)
The Socratic manner is not a game at which two can play.
Zuleika Dobson (1911)
To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
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.
And Even Now (1920)
As a teacher, as a propagandist, Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal.
It is so much easier to covet what one hasn’t than to revel in what one has. Also, it is so much easier to be enthusiastic about what exists than about what doesn’t.
Zuleika Dobson (1911)
He heard that whenever a woman was to blame for a disappointment, the best way to avoid a scene was to inculpate oneself.
Zuleika Dobson (1911)
Everywhere he found his precept checkmated by his example.
Zuleika Dobson (1911)
The Nonconformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.
A crowd, proportionately to its size, magnifies all that in its units pertains to the emotions, and diminishes all that in them pertains to thought.
Zuleika Dobson (1911)
Only the insane take themselves quite seriously.
Max by David Cecil (1964)
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.
Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.
And Even Now (1920)