Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword.
Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.
A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.
There is no sin except stupidity.
Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
There are moments when one has to choose between living one’s own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.
Everything in moderation, including moderation.
Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world’s original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.
Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
What of Art? -It is a malady. – Love? -An Illusion. – Religion? -The fashionable substitute for Belief. – You are a sceptic. -Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith. – What are you? -To define is to limit.
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.