The great trues are too important to be new.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.

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.

It is not for nothing that artists have called their works the children of their brains and likened the pains of production to the pains of childbirth.

Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.

Beauty is also a Gift of God, one of the most rare and precious, and we should be thankful if we are happy enough to possess it and thankful, if we are not, that others possess it for our pleasure.