Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.

Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things.

Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.

Can they feel, I wonder, those white silent people we call the dead?

Always be a little unexpected.