Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

All art is at once surface and symbol.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.

It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they give up thinking what is charming.

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.