Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.

I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the mob, I have no desire to be a popular novelist. It is far too easy.

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

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

No woman should have a memory. Memory in a woman is the beginning of dowdiness. One can always tell from a woman's bonnet whether she has got a memory or not.

Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything.

It may be bad manner to appear here smoking, but it is far worse to disturb me when I am smoking.