Dear little Swallow,’ said the Prince, ‘you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery.

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

Men are such cowards. They outrage every law in the world and are afraid of the world's tongue.

Oh, don't cough, Ernest. When one is dictating one should speak fluently and not cough. Besides, I don't know how to spell a cough.

To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one's own relations.

All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.

Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.