She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.

The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.

"After all," as a pretty girl once said to me, "women are a sex by themselves, so to speak."

I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect, either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.

There is in the human race some dark spirit of recalcitrance, always pulling us in the direction contrary to that in which we are reasonably expected to go.

Some people are born to lift heavy weights, some are born to juggle golden balls.

True dandyism is the result of an artistic temperament working upon a fine body within the wide limits of fashion.