Bad artists always admire each others work.

Society, civilized society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating. It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals, and, in its opinion, the highest respectability is of much less value than the possession of a good chef.

She lives the poetry she cannot write.

The only way to get rid of tempation is to yeild to it.

If you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself - a rare type in our time ... you rise from table richer, and conscious that a high ideal has for a moment touched and sanctified your days. But Oh! my dear Ernest, to sit next to a man who has spent his life in trying to educate others! What a dreadful experience that is!

He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.