Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.
Those whom the gods love grow young.
The moon in her chariot of pearl.
Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.
The curves of your lips rewrite history.
A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain.
Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.
In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.
I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor.
Some people always know the price, but not the value.
I walk the world in wonder.
The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.
I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.
The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.
What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.
The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.
Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.