“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.” 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“I am not young enough to know everything.” 

“Hearts are made to be broken.” 

“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.” 

“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.” 

“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.” 

“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.” 

“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.” 

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” 

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

“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.” 

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.” 

“With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?” 

“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.” 

“To define is to limit.” 

“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.” 

“I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.” 

“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.” 

“I can resist anything except temptation.” 

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

“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.” 

“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.” 

“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.” 

“Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.” 

“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” 

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

“Who, being loved, is poor?” 

“Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.” 

“I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.” 

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

“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.” 

I hate the prostitution of the name of friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances.

It should never fall into something usual and settled, but should be alert and inventive, and add rhyme and reason to what was drudgery.

Friendship demands a religious treatment. We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected. Reverence is a great part of it.

The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust.

Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. 

Let your greatness educate the crude and cold companion.

Men are better than their theology.

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whisper of God.

In the matter of religion, people eagerly fasten their eyes on the difference between their own creed and yours; whilst the charm of the study is in finding the agreements and identities in all the religions of humanity.

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

“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”