All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.

Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious.

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.