Greek dress was in its essence inartistic. Nothing should reveal the body but the body.

Palermo was lovely. The most beautifully situated town in the world - it dreams away its life in the Conca d'Oro, the exquisite valley that lies between two seas. The lemon groves and the orange gardens were entirely perfect.

Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . .

History is a lie commonly agreed upon.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!

There are few things easier than to live badly and die well.

The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.