How pale the Princess is! Never have I seen her so pale. She is like the shadow of a white rose in a mirror of silver.
Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.
Everything is going to be fine in the end. If it's not fine it's not the end.
The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure.
Oh, I can't explain. When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make m...
It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.
If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
Tone of colour in a room or a morning sky, a particular perfume that you had once loved and that brings subtle memories with it, a line from a forgotten poem that you had come across again, a cadence...
When you really want love you willfind it waiting for you.
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope....
The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.
The living always think that gold can make them happy
Muffins should always be eaten quite calmly, as it is the only way to eat them!
If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart
I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws.
Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.
Experience is a question of instinct about life.
Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.
Each man kills the thing he loves.