Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.

It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. ...Art is the most intense mode of Individualism that the world has known. I am inclined to say that it is the only real mode of Individualism that the world has known. ...Art is Individualism.

A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.

A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain.

A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.