I have no objection to anyone's sex life as long as they don't practice it in the street and frighten the horses.

Whenever one has anything unpleasant to say, one should always be quite candid.

I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do. If a personality fascinates me, whatever mode of expression that personality selects is absolutely delightful to me.

Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.

A mask tells us more than a face.

It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.

The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her.