An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

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

Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women...merely adored.

When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.

After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.

Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.