I have nothing to declare but my genius, and this four-kilo bag of cocaine.

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm.

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.

Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.

Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.

The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid

Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime.