There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.

Art requires, above all things, a suppression of self, a subordination of one's self to an idea.

Women never dine alone. When they dine alone they don't dine.

The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.

I have lived too long in foreign parts

I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all.

Am I solemn? I had an idea I was grinning from ear to ear." "You look as if you were taking me to a prayer-meeting or a funeral. If that's a grin your ears are very near together." "Should you like me to dance a hornpipe on the deck?" "Pray do, and I'll carry round your hat. It'll pay the expenses of our journey.