One only says it is one's duty when one has something disagreeable to do.

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.

To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.

The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended.

As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.

It is so seldom in this world that things come just when they are wanted.

Laughing is not the first expression of joy. ... A person laughs in idleness, for fun, not for joy. Joy has nothing, nothing but the old way of tears.

Even in misery we love to be foremost, to have the bitter in our cup acknowledged as more bitter than that of others.

Good works may only be beautiful sins, if they are not done in a true spirit.

All perfection is melancholy.

there are some people who never learn; indeed, few people learn by experience, so far as I have ever seen.

I always say that photography's closest cousin is poetry because of the way it sparks your imagination and leaves gaps for the viewer to fill in.

I do not feel certain until I have confronted my initial solution with other solutions - although in fact the first solution often proves to be the right one.

A little neglect may breed great mischief.

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

My characters shall have, after a little trouble, all that they desire.

I'm not sure the public knows what it wants.

I would rather be having a burger and beers with my mates but I can't do that when I know I've got to dance.

Prada is something that should be so mundane, like clothes.

People still retain the errors of their childhood, their nation, and their age, long after they have accepted the truths needed to refute them.