"we are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at stars."
"Life is much too important a thing ever to talk seriously about."
"A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leave one unsatisfied. What more can one want?"
"Fashion is what one wears oneself, what is unfashionable is what other people wear"
"Art is the on thing which death cannot harm"
"one is not always happy when one is good; but one is always good when one is happy"
