The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you’ll never be invited to a party.
I don’t say we all ought to misbehave. But we ought to look as if we could.
I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do – the day after.
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
One should always be in love. That’s the reason one should never marry.
I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.
They’ve promised that dreams can come true – but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.
All art is quite useless.
The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one’s nature perfectly – that is what each of us is here for.
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
Everything popular is wrong.