To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.

Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor.

I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after the first pretty girl who gave him a wink.

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.