At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.

For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures of fiction than with the irrational and shadowy figures of real life.

Oh, it's always the same,' she sighed, 'if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.

I could have forgiven it if he'd fallen desperately in love with someone and gone off with her. I should have thought that natural. I shouldn't really have blamed him. I should have thought he was led away. Men are so weak, and women are so unscrupulous.

People who ask for your criticism want only praise.

Advice to first year medical students: In anatomy, it is better to have learned and lost than never to have learned at all.