Love is easily killed.

When I ask for a water cress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow one another like the withered leaves of Autumn; but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons and a possession for all eternity.

One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.

The English have a miraculous power of turning wine into water.

Authority is quite degrading.

The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one’s heart to stone.