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.
Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations.
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.
The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.
To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.
Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
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.
I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.
In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press.
You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.
Only the shallow know themselves.
Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves and fibers and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.
Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.
Out of the unreal shadows of the night comes back the real life that we had known
And after the second year was over, the Soul said to the young Fisherman at night-time, and as he sat in the wattled house alone, "Lo! now I have tempted thee with evil, and I have tempted thee with g...
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.