Imagination is imitative-the real innovation lies in criticism.

True friends stab you in the front.

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

What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colourless.

True contentment is not having everything, but in being satisfied with everything you have.

The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grand-pères ont toujours tort.

The ages live in history through their anachronisms.