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

Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea into an image.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

It is he who has broken the bond of marriage - not I. I only break its bondage.

Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.