“We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.” 

“Every woman is a rebel.” 

Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.

“No good deed goes unpunished.” 

“Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.” 

“I have nothing to declare except my genius.” 

We ask for long life, but ’tis deep life, or noble moments that signify. Let the measure of time be spiritual, not mechanical

“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.” 

“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.” 

“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.” 

“To define is to limit.” 

“I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.” 

“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.” 

“I am not young enough to know everything.” 

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.” 

“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.” 

“I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.” 

“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.” 

“A good friend will always stab you in the front.” 

“Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.” 

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” 

“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.” 

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.” 

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”