She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.

There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America. It was not until I had seen the water-works at Chicago that I realised the wonders of machinery; the rise and fall of the steel rods, the symmetrical motion of the great wheels is the most beautiful rhythmic thing I have ever seen.

I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

I may have said the same thing before... but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different.

Love is like a war; easy to start but hard to end and you never know where it might take you.

Oh, I don’t care about Jack. I don’t care for anybody in the whole world but you. I love you, Cecily. You will marry me, won’t you? You silly boy! Of course. Why, we have been engaged for the last three months. For the last three months?