Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.

We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.

Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.

The only proper intoxication is conversation.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

My Salome is a mystic the sister of Salammbô a Saint Thérèse who worships the moon.