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

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

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

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

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

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

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

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.

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

One should always be in love. That’s the reason one should never marry.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.

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.

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.

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

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one’s self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

To whom shall I hire myself out? What beast should I adore? What holy image is attacked? What hearts shall I break? What lies shall I uphold? In what blood tread?

I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can’t possess radiance, you can only admire it.

Between the adored and the adorer falls the shadow.

To live without experiencing some shame and blushes of admiration would surely be a wretched life.

Most men admire Virtue who follow not her lore.

Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.

I erected cities with adoration on my tongue and you burnt mine down in the wake of your love.

What is life, when wanting love? Night without a morning; Love’s the cloudless summer sun, Nature gay adorning.