A man is called affected, nowadays, if he dresses as he likes to dress. But in doing that he is acting in a perfectly natural manner. Affectation, in such matters, consists in dressing according to the views of one's neighbour, whose views, as they are the views of the majority, will probably be extremely stupid.

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

Love! What is love? It's nothing. It's just a word. It doesn't exist. Only pleasure is important.

The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.