Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.

Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation.

Alone, and without any reference to his neighbours, without any interference, the artist can fashion a beautiful thing; and if he does not do it solely for his own pleasure, he is not an artist at all.

Some temptations are so great it takes great courage to yield to them.

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.