Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it.

She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.

The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

A mask tells us more than a face.

A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art.