“How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.”
Marriage“Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.”
Art“How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.”
Marriage“Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.”
Good“It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.”
Art“Who, being loved, is poor?”
Love“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.”
Women“Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.”
Love“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
Truth“A poet can survive everything but a misprint.”
Poetry“I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.”
Art“Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.”
Friendship“Women are made to be loved, not understood.”
Women“There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.”
Life“Those whom the gods love grow young.”
Love“Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.”
Family“It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.”
Good“Some cause happiness wherever they go others whenever they go.”
Happiness“All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.”
Poetry“The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.”
Life“I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.”
Love“The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.”
Life