I'm too old to know everything
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions...
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.
Albeit nurtured in democracy, And liking best that state republican Where every man is Kinglike and no manIs crowned above his fellows, yet I see,Spite of this modern fret for Liberty, Better the rule...
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
Society, as we have constituted it, will have no place for me, has none to offer; but Nature, whose sweet rains fall on unjust and just alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secre...
I drink to separate my body from my soul.
Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
To define is to limit.
I'm a man of simple tastes. I'm always satisfied with the best.
Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.
You told me you had destroyed it. I was wrong. It has destroyed me.
I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.
I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity.
From the moment I met you, your personality had the most extraordinary influence over me. I was dominated, soul brain and power.