Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world.
'The Lady's World' should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women's opinions on all subjects of literature, art and modern life, and yet it should be a magazine that men could read with pleasure.
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.
True friends stab you in the front.
I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
Those whom the gods love grow young.
It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.