I have put my talent into writing, my genius I have saved for living.

Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.

I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.

The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good in man That wastes and withers there.

Sphinxes without secrets.

All great ideas are dangerous.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.