“I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.”
“Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you.”
“None of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.”
“The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.”
“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
“And now, I am dying beyond my means. [Sipping champagne on his deathbed]”
“One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.”
“The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.”
“Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.”
“A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.”
“Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.”
“The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.”
“There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.”
“Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.”
“This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back in again.”
“The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.”
“If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.”
“Morality is the attitude we adopt toward people whom we personally dislike.”
“To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.”
“I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.”
“There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America.”
“Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.”
“The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action.”
“Popularity is the only insult that has not yet been offered to Mr. Whistler.”
“No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.”
“I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.”
“Fashion, by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.”
“I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.”
“Yes; the public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.”
“Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.”