I don't mind plain women being puritans. It is the only excuse they have for being plain.

They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.

A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public to him are non-existent.

Every woman is wrong until she cries.

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.

I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver. Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her.

I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.