Genius is talent provided with ideals.

I am afraid of people with too much charm. They devour you. In the end you are made a sacrifice to the exercise of their fascinating gift and their insincerity.

Tolerance is only another name for indifference.

If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.

No married man's ever made up his mind until he's heard what his wife has got to say about it.

From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.