Women's styles may change but their designs remain the same.

They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.

I find I have, and a heart doesn’t suit me, Windermere. Somehow it doesn’t go with modern dress. It makes one look old.

Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself.

I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid