Every saint has a past, every sinner a future.
Women just have amazing sense. They notice everything except the most obvious thing.
Women who have passed have no future.
There are as many meanings in beauty as there are human dispositions.
Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals itself to us all, because it expresses nothing.
I have no pretentious taste: the best is enough for me.
He had a typical British personality. Such a personality type, that if you see it once, you don't remember it.
In youth, the whole kingdom is ahead. Each of us are born kings, and many, like kings, die in exile.
Wilde was asked to make a list of the best one hundred books. "This is almost impossible," he replied. I only wrote five".
A crime is always a mistake. You should never do the thing you can't talk to people about after lunch.
I assure you that if the typewriter is played with feeling, it bores you no more than a piano played by your sister or any other relative.
Unfortunately, half of humanity doesn't believe in God, and the other half doesn't believe in me.
Temperance is a fatal quality. Only the extreme leads to success.
It is humbling to realize that we are all made of the same dough, but where can you hide from this in Falstaff there is something of Hamlet, and in Hamlet no longer of Falstaff.
Scientific conversation is the occupation of the unemployed mind.
Philanthropists, dealing with charity, lose all their humanity.
Philosophy teaches us to bear other people's misery.
Frank Norris was invited to every decent English home - just once.
The exchange of poisoned glasses serves as the basis of literary friendship.
Good husbands are unbearably boring, and bad husbands are terribly trusting.
A well-tied tie is the first important step in life.
A well-educated man contradicts others, and a wise man contradicts himself.
The right buttonhole is the only link that unites art and nature.
If you want to understand others, take a closer look at yourself.
May God protect you to be with a man and all your life to tend to form others. How narrow is the horizon of these people! How much they tire us, and probably themselves, by endlessly repeating the same thoughts!
Christ did not die to save the world, but to teach us to save one another.
The artist does not tend to prove something. You can prove anything, even undeniable truths.
Artists, like gods, must never leave their pedestals.
Worse than a marriage without love can only be a marriage in which love exists only on one side.
The purpose of life is self-expression. The greatest debt is the debt to oneself.