When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.

After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies that were not my own.

The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should refuse all our serious requests, and gratify every one of our whims. He should encourage us to have caprices, and forbid us to have missions. He should always say much more than he means, and always mean much more than he says.

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to his own superiority as a painter over painters greater than himself.

It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.