I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.

If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.

Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to feel itself alive. The aim of Love is to love: no more, and no less. You were my enemy: such an enemy as no man ever had. I had given you all my life, and to gratify the lowest and most contemptible of all human passions, hatred and vanity and greed, you had thrown it away. In less than three years you had entirely ruined me in every point of view. For my own sake there was nothing for me to do but to love you.

Punctuality is the thief of time

If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any.

Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.

Society, civilized society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating. It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals, and, in its opinion, the highest respectability is of much less value than the possession of a good chef.