We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

I must say... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand.

All criticism is a form of autobiography

Artists reproduce themselves or each other, with wearisome iteration. But criticism is always moving on, and the critic is always developing.