Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

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.

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.

Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.

I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.

Art never expresses anything but itself.

Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.