Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.

There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage: a marriage in which there is love, but on one side only.

I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result.

Freedom, individualism and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property: The true artist is a man who believes absolutely in himself, because he is absolutely himself.

Public opinion exists only where there are no ideas.

Then there was a man who said, 'I never knew what real happiness was until I got married; by then it was too late'

The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord over all life and all arts.