Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.
Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
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.
I drink to make other people interesting.
An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.
Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.
To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
Love demands infinitely less than friendship.
Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man.
The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism.
Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.
Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.
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.
What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency.
Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the common people.
I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost.
An actor without a playwright is like a hole without a doughnut.
