It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
It is only the modern that ever become old-fashioned.
It is only the Philistine who seeks to estimate a personality by the vulgar test of production.
Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf.
Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern. One is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly.
The fact of a man being a poisoner is nothing against his prose. The domestic virtues are not the true basis of art.
To the philosopher women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.
The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.
The only horrible thing in the world is 'ennui.' That is the one sin for which there is no forgiveness.
French songs I cannot possibly allow. People always seem to think that they are improper, and either look shocked, which is vulgar, or laugh, which is worse.