What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise. Oscar Wilde
The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life.
It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.
They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.
A man who marries his mistress leaves a vacancy in that position.
The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself. Sometimes I am so clever I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating – people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.
People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards.
Nowadays, saying what you really think can be a serious error since one risks being misunderstood.
A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.
Don’t give a woman advice; one should never give a woman anything she can’t wear in the evening.
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
Finding the meaning of life is easy. Simply get a dictionary, go to the ‘L’ section, and find the word ‘life.’
The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.
Without order nothing can exist-without chaos nothing can evolve. Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.