We spend our days, each one of us, in looking for the secret of life. Well, the secret of life is in Art.

As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.

In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.

They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.

My dear boy, the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect---simply a confession of failures. Faithfulness! I must analyse it some day. The passion for property is in it. There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up. But I don't want to interrupt you. Go on with your story.

Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.