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.

I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.

Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.

Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

There is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.