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

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

“He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.”

“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.”

“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”

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