The criminal classes are so close to us that even the policemen can see them.

A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are mine, yet for want of a red rose is my life made wretched.

Really, if the lower orders don't set a good example, what on earth is the use of them?

Aestheticism is a search after the signs of the beautiful. It is the science of the beautiful through which men seek the correlation of the arts. It is, to speak more exactly, the search after the secret of life.

A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.