“I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.”

“The power of the Latin classic is in character, that of the Greek is in beauty.”

“There was beauty in the idea of freedom, but it was an illusion. Every human heart was chained by love.”

“The power of the Latin classic is in character, that of the Greek is in beauty. Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.”

“The prince says that the world will be saved by beauty! And I maintain that the reason he has such playful ideas is that he is in love.”

“If everyone were not so indolent they would realise that beauty is beauty even when it is irritating and stimulating not only when it is accepted and classic.”

“I love beautiful women, and beautiful women love me. It has to be both ways.”

“Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?”

“.. Oh my dear friend, you whose voice called me towards my beautiful past, oh how I love you because you are young, you serve the idea, you understand the beauty of a life devoted completely to abstraction. Oh the devil you have done me, and the good of this devil. There is an atrocious page in my existence... I am not a woman. Neither love nor the family satisfies me. I don’t like the baby. I detest the household. I love all works of the human genius, I adore art the beauties of nature and of the heart. The beautiful, the beautiful in all such as love and such as life.”

“The beauty of love.
The love of beauty.
The greener you are, the wiser you will be.”