Good intentions have been the ruin of the world. The only people who have achieved anything have been those who have had no intentions at all.

The only real people are the people who never existed.

But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.

Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets.

I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.

There is no such thing as a heterosexual male, only men who haven't met Oscar Wilde yet.

A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of herself. -Author Unknown As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.