She was heavier than he expected - women always are.

I cannot love people in the country, I discover, because there is always this danger that they may be acquaintances, with all the perils and choleras of acquaintance implicit in them; but in London they seem as charming as rabbits.

You are only young once. At the time it seems endless, and is gone in a flash; and then for a very long time you are old.

I wish I could write librettos for the rest of my life. It is the purest of human pleasures, a heavenly hermaphroditism of being both writer and musician. No wonder that selfish beast Wagner kept it all to himself.

I seem to use this word 'kind' very frequently. When one is unhappy or anxious it is a quality one dwells on.

In the morning I had decided that henceforth I only cared for easy loves. It is so degrading to have to persuade people into liking one, or one's works.

Idleness is righteous if it is comfortable. Uncomfortable idleness is sin & sinful waste.