Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.

I love scrapes. They are the only things that are never serious." "Oh, that's nonsense, Algy. You never talk anything but nonsense." "Nobody ever does.

Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. Besides, each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.

Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm.

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.