Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.

The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.

I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.

No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.

One should always be a little improbable.