Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
