It is very vulgar to talk about one's own business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then only at dinner parties.

Oh, I love London Society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be.

we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others

There is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty.

All art is quite useless.

The ugly can be beautiful. The pretty, never.

The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion-these are the two things that govern us.