Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm.

There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins that were new.

Sometimes, the unnecessary is necessary.

Society, civilized society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating. It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals, and, in its opinion, the highest respectability is of much less value than the possession of a good chef.

I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

A mutual misunderstanding.

Genius lasts longer than beauty