The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.

An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching.

Always be a little unexpected.

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.