There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

I have a business appointment that I am anxious... to miss.

The curves of your lips rewrite history.

I prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to.

The artistic life is a long, lovely suicide.

The gods bestowed on Max [Beerbohm] the gift of perpetual old age.

I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.