Only the shallow know themselves.

I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.

Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.

I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.

Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.

Pleasure without Champagne is purely artificial.

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.