A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty
comes most easily to those who have no taste for it.

Alas, I am dying beyond my means.
(sipping champagne on his deathbed)

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its
fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease
to be popular.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of
the people by the people for the people.

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable
that we have to alter it every six months.

The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to
her if she is pretty and to someone else if she is plain.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

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

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

Why was I born with such contemporaries?

Young men want to be faithful and are not;
old men want to be faithless and cannot.