An artist is a person who thinks more than there is to think, feels more than there is to feel, and sees more than there is to see.

There never was a woman so ill-suited to public life as I am. I have had to whip myself, as it were, into society, and the loneliness of it all has been terrific.

All forced virtue is degrading in it effect.

Entertainment for entertainment's sake is the most expensive form of death.

We must know the measure of a man's desires before we can sound the depth of his regrets.

In life there are no Unities, but three Incomprehensibles: Destiny, Man, and Woman.

love comes to man through his senses - to woman through her imagination.