Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.
Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.
It is he who has broken the bond of marriage – not I. I only break its bondage.
You know what a woman’s curiosity is.
I don’t like Switzerland; it has produced nothing but theologians and waiters.
As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back.
I won’t belong to a club that accepts me as a member.
All thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction. If you think of anything, you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of.
A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime.
Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic – a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.
The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.
Love is a misunderstanding between two fools.
The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.
When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn’t think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn’t expect, just as one should say what she doesn’t understand.
Dammit Sir, it’s your duty to get married. You can’t always be living for pleasure!
It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing.
No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.
Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something.
The job of the critic is to report to us his moods.
It’s not whether you win or lose, it’s how you place the blame.