The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.
It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm and behave as outrageously as the world will let them.
What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.
There are two things to aim at in life: first to get what you want and after that to enjoy it.
How it infuriates a bigot when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!
An improper mind is a perpetual feast.
One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience.
I cannot forgive my friends for dying: I do not find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.
How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmaresif there seemed any danger of their coming true!
What humbugs we are who pretend to live for Beauty and never see the Dawn!
The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.
There are few sorrows however poignant in which a good income is of no avail.
Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there is no God.
Most people sell their souls and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.
Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament not of income.
There are two things to aim at in life: first to get what you want and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years gotten enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors or to see themselves as others see them.