Only the unimaginative can fail to find a reason for drinking Champagne

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.

The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.

She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.

One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.

Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to feel itself alive. The aim of Love is to love: no more, and no less. You were my enemy: such an enemy as no man ever had. I had given you all my life, and to gratify the lowest and most contemptible of all human passions, hatred and vanity and greed, you had thrown it away. In less than three years you had entirely ruined me in every point of view. For my own sake there was nothing for me to do but to love you.