The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread and the highest form of literature, Poetry, brings no wealth to the singer.

If you cannot prove a man wrong, don't panic. You can always call him names.

Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so.

We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

At every single moment of one's life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been.

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.

The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.