To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.
They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist.
There’s nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It’s a thing no married man knows anything about.
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
