Morality has always been the last refuge of people indifferent to art.
Today's youth imagine that money is everything. And with the passage of time, they really become convinced of this.
Today's novels are so similar to life that we cannot trust their credibility.
About Bernard Shaw: He is a wonderful person. He has no enemies and is loved by none of his friends.
About music: How lucky we are to have only one imitative art!
I have a very good opinion about football. It's a great game for brutal girls, but not for delicate guys.
About Irish writer George Murr: He wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar.
About one of the English novelists: He writes at the top of his voice. He is so vocal that no one can hear him.
I love simple pleasures. This is the last refuge of complex natures.
Education is a wonderful thing. We need to at least sometimes remember that nothing you need to know can be learned.
Society goes wild incomparably more because of the application of systematic punitive measures than because of occasional crimes.
Society produces crooks, and education makes some crooks smarter than others.
Only the gods have tasted death. Apollo is dead, but Hyacinth, who, according to the beliefs of the people, killed him, is still alive. Nero and Narcissus are always with us.
He has one of those exceedingly weak natures which does not allow itself to be swayed in any way.
He died. He probably gave too much importance to the diagnosis made by his doctors.
He is probably a very respectable man. I've never heard of him in my life, and that's a lot these days.
Even in her old age she retained traces of her amazing ugliness.
"I like her a lot, but I'm not in love with her." - "And she's in love with you, even though she doesn't really like you."
She can speak brilliantly on any subject, provided she knows nothing about it.
She changed her husband several times, but kept only one lover, and therefore the gossip about her stopped long ago.
She is made to be the ambassador's wife. He has an amazing ability to memorize people's names and forget their faces.
They live a simple, healthy life in the country: they get up early, because they have a lot to do, and they go to bed early, because they have nothing to think about.
The orchid is wonderful as the seven deadly sins.
It is an ugly, unhealthy habit to tell the truth, to check whether everything you hear is true, and to object without hesitation in front of those much younger than us.
Parents should neither be seen nor heard. Only on such a basis can a solid family be built.
It is very dangerous to meet a woman who understands you completely. This usually ends in a marriage.
It's hard not to be unfair to the one you love.
Cigarettes are a perfect form of ultimate pleasure, tender and sharp but leaving us unsatisfied. What else could you want?
Man's first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. The second duty of man has not yet been discovered.
A woman's first duty is to satisfy her seamstress. What his second debt consists of has not yet been discovered.