When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others.

Genius lasts longer than beauty.

Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.

To define is to limit.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

Punctuality is the thief of time.

People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves.

Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know.

The artist is the creator of beautiful things.
To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.

Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things.

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.