It is awfully hard work doing nothing.

Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.

She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.

The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.

But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.

It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work when there is no definite object of any kind. To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing.