When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable.

And the marvellous rose became crimson, like the rose of the eastern sky. Crimson was the girdle of petals, and crimson as a ruby was the heart

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life.

I am Irish by race but the English have condemned me to talk the language of Shakespeare.

After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies that were not my own.

One does not see anything until one sees its beauty.