That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.

Time cures one of everything-even of living.

Antiquity was perhaps created to provide professors with their bread and butter.

When incredulity becomes a faith, it is less rational than a religion.

History is a novel which did take place; a novel is history that could take place.

Only a woman of the world is a woman; the rest are females.

There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but impotent. One thing reassures me as to our value: the boredom that afflicts us. It is the hall-mark of quality in modern men.

The real connoisseurs in art are those who make people accept as beautiful something everybody used to consider ugly, by revealing and resuscitating the beauty in it.

There are two infinities in this world: God up above, and down below, human baseness.

Never speak of yourself to others; make them talk about themselves instead; therein lies the whole art of pleasing. Everybody knows it, and everyone forgets it.