A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date.

The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one.

The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.

The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.