It’s beauty that captures your attention; personality captures your heart.
One can live for years sometimes without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into one single hour.
To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist – the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one’s vinegar.
Who am I to tamper with a masterpiece?
Oh, he occasionally takes an alcoholiday.
An actor is part illusionist, part artist, part ham.
It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it.
Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.
Sphinxes without secrets.
A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.
People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there is only one answer. The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all.
Loveless marriages are horrible. But there is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love, but on one side only; faith, but on one side only; devotion, but on one side only, and in which of the two hearts one is sure to be broken.
The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.
Travel ennobles the spirit and does away with our prejudices.
Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city.
The dim roar of London was like the bourdon note of a distant organ.
I have the kiss of Walt Whitman still on my lips.
One is not always happy when one is good; but one is always good when one is happy.
Everyone may not be good, but there’s always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stockbroker, can gain a reputation for being civilized.