Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
My dear boy, the people who only love once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagina...
And when wind and winter hardenAll the loveless land,It will whisper of the garden,You will understand.
I hope you have not been leading a double life pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
It would be unfair to expect other people to be as brilliant as oneself.
Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.
The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities.
Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .
Relations are simply a tedious pack of people who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die.
I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.
A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
The pure and simple truth is, the truth is never pure and simple.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast,
I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.
We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.The nineteenth century dislike of realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a gl...