Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn, the word "sophisticate" means, very simply, "obscene." A sophisticated... story is a dirty story. Some of that meaning was wafted eastward and got itself mixed up into the present definition. So that a "sophisticate" means: one who dwells in a tower made of a DuPont substitute for ivory and holds a glass of flat champagne in one hand and an album of dirty post cards in the other.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Were I to buy this life of pleasure and this only chance at happiness with a few little dangers, where would be the harm? And woul...dn't it still be fortunate to find a weak excuse to give her proof of my love?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hypocrisy repels me even in love, and our great women aim for too lofty a performance. Napoleon has given them some ideas of moral...s and constancy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The pleasures and the cares of the luckiest ambition, even of limitless power, are nothing next to the intimate happiness that ten...derness and love give. I am man before being a prince, and when I have the good fortune to be in love, my mistress addresses a man and not a prince.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impo...ssible to ignore.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This religion takes away the courage of thinking of unusual things and prohibits self-examination above all as the most egregious ...of sins.... It is one step away from protestantism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »