…not in any particular order…
- “When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn’t think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn’t expect, just as one should say what she doesn’t understand.”
- “A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.”
- “And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”
- “He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one’s eyes, and does not look at him.”
- “A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
- “No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.”
- “It is through art, and through art only, that we can realize our perfection; through art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.”
- “There is no sin except stupidity.”
- “Bigamy is having a wife too many, monogamy is the same.”
- “I have nothing to declare except my Genius.”
- “In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust.”
- “Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
- “I have but the simplest taste — I am always satisfied with the best.”