Greek dress was in its essence inartistic. Nothing should reveal the body but the body.

Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.

Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.

Finding the meaning of life is easy. Simply get a dictionary, go to the 'L' section, and find the word 'life.'

Art creates an incomparable and unique effect, and, having done so, passes on to other things. Nature, upon the other hand, forgetting that that imitation can be made the sincerest form of insult, keeps on repeating this effect until we all become absolutely wearied of it.

I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.