“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”

“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”

“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 ther...”

“Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.”

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

“To define is to limit.”

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