“American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past.”

“To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.”

“Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.”

“The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.”

“It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him.”

“She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.”

“The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen. ”