One should never listen. To listen is a sign of indifference to one's hearers.

It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

I'm sure I don't know half the people who come to my house. Indeed, from all I hear, I shouldn't like to.

We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water can cleanse, that fire can purify, and that the Earth is mother to us all.

The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.