To get into the best society, nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people - that is all!

Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.

Sometime you will find, even as I have found, that there is no such thing as romantic experience; there are romantic memories, and there is the desire of romance- that is all. Our most fiery moments of ecstasy are merely shadows of what somewhere else we have felt, or of what we long someday to feel

A man who takes himself too seriously will find that no one else takes him seriously.

The proper school to learn art is not life but art

To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.

I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.