The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake without enthusiasm, and dies for what he does not believe in, i...
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
An excellent man he has no enemies and none of his friends like him.
Biography lends to death a new terror.
Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather t...
Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.
My dear boy, no woman is a genius. Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the t...
I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common peopl...
Every single human being should be the fulfilment of a prophecy: for every human being should be the realisation of some ideal, either in the mind of God or in the mind of man.
But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.
Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh or shed tears. But in real life it is different. Most men and w...
A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.
No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are can be proved. No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. No artist is ever mor...
One could never pay too high a price for any sensation.
Oh, I can't explain. When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make m...