The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.
The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.
In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
