When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.

And let me touch those curving claws of yellow ivory; and grasp the tail that like a monstrous asp coils round your heavy velvet paws.

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.

The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.