Each of us has heaven and hell in him.

Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

There is only good art and mediocre art.

I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.

The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should refuse all our serious requests, and gratify every one of our whims. He should encourage us to have caprices, and forbid us to have missions. He should always say much more than he means, and always mean much more than he says.