To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.

The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord over all life and all arts.

I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.

You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?

People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.

He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.

When people talk to us about others they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always interesting.