The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.
There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.
With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.
God and other artists are always a little obscure.....
A flower blossoms for its own joy.
Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.
One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.
Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.
The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.
I have nothing to declare except my genius.
I don't want to earn my living, I want to live.
The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.
The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.
Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
The curves of your lips rewrite history.
To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.