Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life now that I am old I know that it is.
In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants and the other is getting it.
The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.
One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
The moon in her chariot of pearl
My great mistake the fault for which I can't forgive myself is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.
She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.
Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
How pale the Princess is! Never have I seen her so pale. She is like the shadow of a white rose in a mirror of silver.
I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.
I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
I love scrapes. They are the only things that are never serious.Oh, that's nonsense, Algy. You never talk anything but nonsense.Nobody ever does.
Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.
Most people are boring and stupid.
Niagara ... is the first disappointment in the married life of many Americans who spend their honeymoon there.
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