Just as the orator marks his good things by a dramatic pause, or by raising and lowering his voice, or by gesture, so the writer marks his epigrams with italics, setting the little gem, so to speak, like a jeweler.

Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people. And falsehoods the truths of other people. Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself. To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.

They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.

Only the unimaginative can fail to find a reason for drinking Champagne

What a silly thing love is! It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything and it is always telling one things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true.

Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.

If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.