Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
— Oscar Wilde
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
True friends stab you in the front.
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
