Do you smoke?Well, yes, I must admit I smoke.I'm glad to hear of it. A man should always have an occupation of some kind.
Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as lon...
Dear little Swallow,’ said the Prince, ‘you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery.
But she is happiest alone. She is happiest alone.
Any place you love is the world to you.
Ah! realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common,...
A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.
A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain.
A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.
There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time; the reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised; for the question often arrives a terri...
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
You will always be loved, and you will always be in love with love. A grande passion is the privilege of people who have nothing to do.
The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.
If the Socialism is Authoritarian; if there are Governments armed with economic power as they are now with political power; if, in a word, we are to have Industrial Tyrannies, then the last state of m...
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
The costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.