“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.”
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
“I can resist everything except temptation.”
“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
“Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.”
“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
“To define is to limit.”
“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”
“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.”
“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
“I have nothing to declare except my genius.”
“A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.”
“What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
“It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.”
“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
“Life is too important to be taken seriously.”
“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”
“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”
“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.”
“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train.”
“The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.”
“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
“I don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.”
“The heart was made to be broken.”
“We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.”
“It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory and still to love it.”
“I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.”
“Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.”
“True friends stab you in the front.”
“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
Arrivederci! (Goodbye in Italian)
