What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

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.