1887 – 1964 • British • Poet
Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish.
I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation they do not want to attract attention.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.
The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.
