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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

Those who are faithless know the pleasures of love; it is the faithful who know love's tragedies.

Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.

One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so unbearable that we are compelled to alter it every six months.

Always forgive your enemies--nothing annoys them so much.

Always forgive your enemies--nothing annoys them so much. -Oscar Wilde.

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

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

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

It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadayssaying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.

The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

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

Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.

Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy.