The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should refuse all our serious requests, and gratify every one of our whims. He should encourage us to have caprices, and forbid us to have missions. He should always say much more than he means, and always mean much more than he says.

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs.

How long could you love a woman who didn't love you, Cecil? A woman who didn't love me? Oh, all my life!

The only way to get rid of tempation is to yeild to it.

Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.

Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.