Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive

The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

I gave my genius to my life, but my talent to my art.