I have never learned anything except from people younger than myself.

Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.

There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time; the reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised; for the question often arrives a terribly long time after the answer.

My Salome is a mystic the sister of Salammbô a Saint Thérèse who worships the moon.

Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.

The British cook, for her iniquities, is a foolish woman who should be turned into a pillar of salt which she never knows how to use.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.