I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best.

If only the picture could grow old, and I stay young. For that...for that, I would give my SOUL for that.

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

The ugly can be beautiful. The pretty, never.

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

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.