Only by avoiding the beginning of things can we escape their end.

It is the fear of middle-age in the young, of old-age in the middle-aged, which is the prime cause of infidelity, that infallible rejuvenator.

The shock, for an intelligent writer, of discovering for the first time that there are people younger than himself who think him stupid is severe.

There are only three things which make life worth living: to be writing a tolerably good book, to be in a dinner party of six, and to be traveling south with someone whom your conscience permits you to love.

The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.

An aesthetic movement with a revolutionary dynamism and no popular appeal should proceed quite otherwise than by public scandal, publicity stunt, noisy expulsion and excommunication.

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.