One should never listen. To listen is a sign of indifference to one's hearers.

There's no sin but stupidity.

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.

The value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. Indeed, the probabilities are that the more insincere the man is, the more purely intellectual will the idea be, as in that case it will not be coloured by either his wants, his desires, or his prejudices.

You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.

you will always love, and you will always be loved

She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses but in all my garden there is no red rose.