“It is better to be beautiful then to be good, but it is better to be good then to be ugly.”

“No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly”

“There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.”

“Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.”

“I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.”

“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. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”

“The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.”