Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.

Jack? . . . No, there is very little music in the name Jack, if any at all, indeed. It does not thrill. It produces absolutely no vibrations . . . I have known several Jacks, and they all, without exception, were more than usually plain. Besides, Jack is a notorious domesticity for John! And I pity any woman who is married to a man called John. She would probably never be allowed to know the entrancing pleasure of a single moment’s solitude. The only really safe name is Ernest.

They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.

No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.

Greek dress was in its essence inartistic. Nothing should reveal the body but the body.

All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.

I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.