“I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.”
“Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.”
“A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.”
“We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.”
“Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.”
“Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.”
“Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.”
“For he who lives more lives than one: More deaths than one must die.”
“The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.”
“Ignorance is like a delicate fruit; touch it, and the bloom is gone.”
“Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon.”
“The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.”
“I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.”
“Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you.”
“None of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.”
“The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.”
“If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.”
“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
“And now, I am dying beyond my means. [Sipping champagne on his deathbed]”
“One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.”
“The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.”
“The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.”
“Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.”
“A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.”
“Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.”
“The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.”
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
“There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.”
“Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.”
“The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.”