Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.

Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.

I am afraid that woman appreciate cruelty, downright cruelty, more than anything else. They have wonderfully primitive instincts. We have emancipated them, but they remain slaves looking for their masters, all the same. They love being dominated.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

It is a very dangerous thing to know one’s friends.

I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.

Bad manners make a journalist.