When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try… - Oscar Wilde

After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own. Music always seems to me to produce that effect. It creates for one a past of which one has been ignorant, and fills one with a sense of sorrows that have been hidden from one’s tears.

To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.

To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.