I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.

To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations.

There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate--not to the artist but to the public.... Without them we would judge a man simply by his work; but at present the newspapers are trying hard to induce the public to judge a sculptor, for instance, never by his statues but by the way he treats his wife; a painter by the amount of his income and a poet by the colour of his necktie.

The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.

I have put my talent into writing, my genius I have saved for living.