If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

Even now I cannot help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really shown in the work one creates.

There is a fatality about good resolutions – that they are always made too late

Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.

If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them. (Lady Chiltern)

Though one can dine in New York, one could not dwell there.