The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

I have nothing to declare except my genius.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

In married life three is company and two none.

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.

It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

I have never given adoration to any body except myself.

Memory… is the diary that we all carry about with us.