“I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people.”

“A genius in the daytime and a beauty at night!”

“Genius lasts longer than beauty”

“this woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night”

“Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it.”

“MRS ALLONBY I adore them. The clever people never listen, and the stupid people never talk.HESTER I think the stupid people talk a great deal.MRS ALLONBY Ah, I never listen!”

“Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners.”