The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.
She was free in her prison on passion.
The world belongs to you for a season.
And as for believing things, I can believe anything, provided that it is incredible.
Most people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life.
It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain.
If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart.
Passion makes one think in a circle.
One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders.
Ah! this morning! You have lived since then.
Yet the roses are not less lovely for all that.
Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.
I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.
I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.
You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.
A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.
I drink to separate my body from my soul.
When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.
A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.
A flower blossoms for its own joy.
Some things are too important to be taken seriously.
I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.
Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative.
I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.