If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.

There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage: a marriage in which there is love, but on one side only.

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Well, I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.

While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first personality, which no one should copy.

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

I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.