Don't tell me that you have exhausted Life. When a man says that, one knows that life has exhausted him.

It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.

No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.

The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should refuse all our serious requests, and gratify every one of our whims. He should encourage us to have caprices, and forbid us to have missions. He should always say much more than he means, and always mean much more than he says.

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.

To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.