One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.
One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.
I am tired of myself to-night. I should like to be somebody else.
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.
Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.
In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.
Misfortunes one can endure – they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one’s own faults – ah! – there is the sting of life.
You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.
Irony is wasted on the stupid.
Hearts Live By Being Wounded.
Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.
After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.
I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.
Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.
I love to talk about nothing. It’s the only thing I know anything about.
Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive.
I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.