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.

The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole.

No woman should have a memory. Memory in a woman is the beginning of dowdiness. One can always tell from a woman's bonnet whether she has got a memory or not.

All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.

There is no such thing as a heterosexual male, only men who haven't met Oscar Wilde yet.

I do not approve of anything which tampers with natural ignorance

They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.