Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to feel itself alive. The aim of Love is to love: no more, and no less. You were my enemy: such an enemy as no man ever had. I had given you all my life, and to gratify the lowest and most contemptible of all human passions, hatred and vanity and greed, you had thrown it away. In less than three years you had entirely ruined me in every point of view. For my own sake there was nothing for me to do but to love you.

To get into the best society, nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people - that is all!

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things. That is exactly what things were originally made for.

Everybody in American seems in a rush to catch a train.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

Where your life leads you, you must go