Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men..

A ready way to lose your friend is to lend him money. Another equally ready way to lose him is to refuse to lend him money. It is six of one and a ha….

All that is necessary to raise imbecility into what the mob regards as profundity is to lift it off the floor and put it on a platform..

The notion that as a man grows older his illusions leave him is not quite true. What is true is that his early illusions are supplanted by new, and t….

A ham is simply any actor who has not been successful in repressing his natural instincts..

Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote..

An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out..

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination..

Common sense, in so far as it exists, is all for the bourgeoisie. Nonsense is the privilege of the aristocracy. The worries of the world are for the ….

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one i….

Love demands infinitely less than friendship..

Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry..

I know many married men, I even know a few happily married men, but I don't know one who wouldn't fall down the first open coal hole running after th….

I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost..

Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value..

Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired..

The path of sound credence is through the thick forest of skepticism..

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few..

It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on..

It is the mark of a superior person that, left to themselves they are able endlessly to amuse, interest and entertain themselves out of their persona….

Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles..