Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.

What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket.

Anesthesia: wounds without pain. Neurasthenia: pain without wounds.

Through my satire I make little people so big that afterwards they are worthy objects of my satire and no one can reproach me any longer.

Lord, forgive them, for they know what they do!

If by day art is in the service of business, the evenings are devoted to the businessman's enjoyment of it. That is asking a lot of art, but art and the businessman make it work.

Cosmetics is the science of a woman's cosmos.