Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building.

Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.

The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous.

She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.

The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.

A kiss may ruin a human life

Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.