To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.

In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential.

It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of the world, whatever may be the explanation of the next.

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.