When bankers get together they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money.
There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the passions, and gave to the intellect a quickened sense of joy, greater than any joy they brought, or could ever bring, to the senses.
Sphinxes without secrets.
Millionaire models are rare enough; but model millionaires are rarer still!
The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.
In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential.