There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.
Now and then it is a joy to have one’s table red with wine and roses.
To be premature is to be perfect.
I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.
Sooner or later we have all to pay for what we do.
People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards.
If people were meant to be nude, they would have been born this way.
I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.
I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.
Make some sacrifice for your art and you will be repaid, but ask of art to sacrifice herself for you and a bitter disappointment may come to you.
Just as the orator marks his good things by a dramatic pause, or by raising and lowering his voice, or by gesture, so the writer marks his epigrams with italics, setting the little gem, so to speak, like a jeweler.
Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
The man who says his wife can’t take a joke, forgets that she took him.
The only one you need in your life is that person who shows you he needs you in his.
I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.
The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
I must remember that a good friend is a new world.