“I like criticism, but it must be my way.”

“I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.”

“I never let school get in the way of my education!”

“The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades.”

“The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.”

“One mustn't criticize other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself”

“I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well.”