Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.

The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it.

Tell the cook of this restaurant with my compliments that these are the very worst sandwiches in the whole world, and that, when I ask for a watercress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.

I can't stand people that do not take food seriously.

I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.

There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.