The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.

Really, if the lower orders don't set a good example, what on earth is the use of them?

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.

It is sweet to dance to violins When love and life are fair: To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes Is delicate and rare: But it is not sweet with nimble feet To dance upon the air!

An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty.

A glass of absinthe is as poetical as anything in the world. What difference is there between a glass of absinthe and a sunset?

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.