When elderly invalids meet with fellow-victims of their own ailments, then at last real conversation begins, and life is delicious.

One's own vanities and humiliations I find a delicious subject for conversation. Things said of me behind my back I don't enjoy, and don't listen to them.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.

If it's to be, it's up to me.

The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

The test of enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind.