Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

But she is happiest alone. She is happiest alone.

I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.

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.

Out of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had left off... p 207

It was only in the theatre that I lived

The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.