Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it.
I can resist everything except temptation.
There is no sin except stupidity.
Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
All art is immoral.
The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
If one hears bad music it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.