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.

There is one thing infinitely more pathetic than to have lost the woman one is in love with, and that is to have won her and found out how shallow she is!

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.

Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!

The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me.

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.