Be yourself, because others are already taken.

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

And her sweet red lips on these lips of mine Burned like the ruby fire set In the swinging lamp of a crimson shrine, Or the bleeding wounds of the pomegranate, Or the heart of the lotus drenched and wet With the spilt-out blood of the rose-red wine.

The public has always, and in every age, been badly brought up. They are continually asking Art to be popular, to please their want of taste, to flatter their absurd vanity, to tell them what they have been told before, to show them what they ought to be tired of seeing, to amuse them when they feel heavy after eating too much, and to distract their thoughts when they are wearied of their own stupidity.

I have no objection to anyone's sex life as long as they don't practice it in the street and frighten the horses.

Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.