I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver. Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her.

The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grand-pères ont toujours tort.

One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.

Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America.

To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.

When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.