Knowledge would be fatal, it is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things beautiful.

She is a peacock in everything but beauty.

A grand passion is the privelege of people who have nothing to do.

…my dear boy, no woman is a genius. They are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only the shallow people who do not judge by appearances.

We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices.