I am less to you than your ivory Hermes or your silver Faun. You will like them always. How long will you like me? Till I have my first wrinkle, I suppose. I know, now,...

I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.

When bankers get together for dinner, they discuss Art. When artists get together for dinner, they discuss Money

Moral grounds are always the last refuge of people who have no sense of beauty.

If a woman cannot make her mistakes charming, she is only a female.

To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.

I have a business appointment that I am anxious… to miss.

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...

Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.

America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself.

Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.

Duty is what one expects from others.

It is the duty of every father… to write fairy tales for his children.

You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don’t even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved you because you were marvelous, because you had genius and...

We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.

The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.

Art creates an incomparable and unique effect, and, having done so, passes on to other things. Nature, upon the other hand, forgetting that that imitation can be made the sincerest form of insult, keeps on...

After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own. Music always seems to me to produce that...

Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.

The girl laughed again. The joy of a caged bird was in her voice.

Bad artists always admire each others work.

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn’t there, and finding it.

And the child smiled on the Giant, and said to him, ‘You let me play once in your garden, to-day you shall come with me to my garden, which is Paradise.

People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one’s self. Of course, they are charitable. They feed the hungry and clothe the beggar....

If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.

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.

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one’s self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

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...

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.

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...

So with curious eyes and sick surmiseWe watched him day by day,And wondered if each one of usWould end the self-same way,For none can tell to what red HellHis sightless soul may stray.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen. They always want a sixth act, and as soon as the interest of the...

A fi bun inseamna a fi in armonie cu tine insuti. Disonanta inseamna a fi in armonie cu altii

[W]as verabscheuenswerter sei, die Zeichen der Sünde oder die des Alter.

High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

I don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.

Contudo, o mais corajoso dentre nós tem medo de si mesmo. A mutilação do selvagem tem a sua trágica sobrevivência na própria renúncia que corrompe as nossas vidas. Somos todos castigados por nossas renúncias. Cada...

It is very wrong to kill any one[.]””Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!

[D]as man die wahre Natur der Sinne nie verstanden hatte und dass sie wild und tierisch geblieben waren, nur weil die Welt versucht hatte, sie durch Aushungern zu bändigen und durch schmerzhaften Verzicht abzutöten, statt...

it is a marvel that those red-roseleaf lips of yours should be made no less for the madness of music and song than for the madness of kissing.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.