The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art.

The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.

In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and never taste them.

There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.