He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.

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.

A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain.

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

The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.

Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say.

Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded.