A passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.

My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.

Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection?

It is only the sacred things that are worth touching

Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up and change? It's perfectly childish to be in mourning for a man who is actually staying a whole week with you in your house as a guest. I call it grotesque.

I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.