The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life.

The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.

My dear Arthur, I never talk scandal. I only talk gossip. What is the difference between scandal and gossip? Oh! Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation.

Schopenhauer has analysed the pessimism that characterize modern thought, but Hamlet invented it

Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building.