“Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.”

“Women have no appreciation of good looks—at least, good women have not.”

“I find I have, and a heart doesn’t suit me, Windermere. Somehow it doesn’t go with modern dress. It makes one look old.”

“Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.”

“As he looked back upon man moving through History, he was haunted by a feeling of loss. So much had been surrendered! and to such little purpose!...Hedonism... was to teach man to concentrate himself upon the moments of a life that is but itself a moment. ”

“We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.”

“Let me be surrounded by luxury, I can do without the necessities!”