There's nothing grimmer than the tragedy that wears a comic mask.

The essence of taste is suitability. Divest the word of its prim and priggish implications, and see how it expresses the mysterious demand of the eye and mind for symmetry, harmony and order.

Life is the saddest thing there is, next to death.

The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!

Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any.

He had known the love that is fed on caresses and feeds them; but this passion that was closer than his bones was not to be superficially satisfied.

She threw back her head with a laugh that made her chins ripple like little waves.