Society exists only as a mental concept in the real world there are only individuals.
The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up and change? It's perfectly childish to be in mourning for a man who is actually staying a whole wee...
I don't like compliments and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.
I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die.
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
Even things that are true can be proved.
After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.
Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
God and other artists are always a little obscure.....
I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
When good Americans die they go to Paris.
An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him.
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.
The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.
The moon in her chariot of pearl
It was always once springtime in my heart.
I analyzed you, though you did not adore me.