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

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

The best people to work for are me, myself and I.

If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman. When one is in love one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others. This is what the world calls a romance.