He hasn't an enemy in the world and none of his friends like him.
For his mourners will be outcast menAnd outcasts always mourn...
I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.
You came to me to learn the Pleasure of Life and the Pleasure of Art. Perhaps I am chosen to teach you something much more wonderful, the meaning of Sorrow and its beauty.
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.The nineteenth century dislike of realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a gl...
One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.
How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.
If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.
The play was a great success but the audience was a disaster.
The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.
She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.
It is the duty of every father... to write fairy tales for his children.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.
With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.