When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one’s self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.
The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.
I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.
To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
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.