Marriage is hardly a thing one can do now and then, except in America.
Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses – once.
A mutual misunderstanding.
Women’s styles may change but their designs remain the same.
Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary. When her third husband died, her hair turned quite gold from grief.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. We all have clouds above us but some see their silver linings. We all face difficulties but some of us are grateful that they aren’t worse.
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise for which we are later, in the fullness of time and understanding, very grateful.
His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.
I am a man of simple pleasures. The best suits me perfectly.
All art is at once surface and symbol.
Freedom, individualism and being yourself so long as you don’t hurt another’s physical person or property: The true artist is a man who believes absolutely in himself, because he is absolutely himself.
The best art is about individualism, free self-expression and realising a unique, imaginative perspective- A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent.
A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art.
The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.
I am very glad I have travelled. Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one’s prejudices.
It is a much cleverer thing to talk nonsense than to listen to it.
The youth of the present day are quite monstrous. They have absolutely no respect for dyed hair.
What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.
I often take exercise. Why only yesterday I had breakfast in bed.
All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.