Art creates an incomparable and unique effect, and, having done so, passes on to other things. Nature, upon the other hand, forgetting that that imitation can be made the sincerest form of insult, keeps on repeating this effect until we all become absolutely wearied of it.

The curves of your lips rewrite history.

If you are going to tell people the truth, you had better make them laugh or they will kill you.

The real weakness of England lies, not in incomplete armaments or unfortified coasts, not in the poverty that creeps through sunless lanes, or the drunkenness that brawls in loathsome courts, but simply in the fact that her ideals are emotional and not intellectual.

After a good quality dinner one will be able to forgive anybody, still one's own relations.

The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.