An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty.

Oh, I love London Society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be.

The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.

The aim of love is to love. No more, no less.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

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

He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.