It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
Charity creates a multitude of sins.
Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
Biography lends to death a new terror.
It is always the unreadable that occurs.
Music makes one feel so romantic – at least it always gets on one’s nerves – which is the same thing nowadays.
Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.
Literature always anticipates life. It doesn’t copy it but moulds it to it’s purpose.
The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.
I know. In fact, I am never wrong.
It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously.
I don’t like compliments, and I don’t see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn’t mean.
The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.
With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?