The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous.

If people were meant to be nude, they would have been born this way.

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

My friend is not allowed to go out today. I sit by his side and read him passages from his own life. They fill him with surprise. Everyone should keep someone else's diary; I sometimes suspect you of keeping mine.

The gods bestowed on Max [Beerbohm] the gift of perpetual old age.

Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.