Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.
The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her.
Surely Love is a wonderful thing. It is more precious than emeralds, and dearer than fine opals. Pearls and pomegranates cannot buy it, nor is it set forth in the marketplace. It may not be purchased of the merchants, for can it be weighed out in the balance for gold.
I have spent most of the day putting in a comma and the rest of the day taking it out.
One’s days were too brief to take the burden of another’s errors on one’s shoulders. Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it.
Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations.
Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Sins of the soul alone are shameful.
She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.
The artistic life is a long, lovely suicide.
A flower blossoms for its own joy.
A mask tells us more than a face.
She lives the poetry she cannot write.
Circumstances should never alter principles!
If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.
You are Beautiful when you are happy.
My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don’t know anything at all.
When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people’s time, not one’s own.
When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.
The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope.
One should never listen. To listen is a sign of indifference to one’s hearers.