I don't want to earn a living. I want to live.

The beautiful, passionate, ruined South, the land of magnolias and music, of roses and romance . . . living on the memory of crushing defeats

To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.

When good Americans die, they go to Paris" "Where do bad Americans go?" "They stay in America

A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.

Alone, and without any reference to his neighbours, without any interference, the artist can fashion a beautiful thing; and if he does not do it solely for his own pleasure, he is not an artist at all.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.