You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.
The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
The real tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self-denial. Beautiful sins, like beautiful things, are the privilege of the rich.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.[to Lady Hunstanton]
Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed.
Men always want to be a woman’s first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man’s last romance.
In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
I can resist everything except temptation.
Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.
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