“Everybody offers to buy one a drink; but nobody ever dreams of buying one a sandwich.”

“The dandy cleans his monocle every day, a silver monocle with a lens of smoked gold, given him by a beautiful lady but, suddenly overcome with sadness, he has lost the monocle case.”

“I am by far your superior, but my notorious modesty prevents me from saying so.”

“I am tired of always dying with a broken heart.”

“Je m'appelle Erik Satie comme tout le monde.”

“I came into the world very young, in an age that was very old.”

“Who understands war: the solders? the homeless ones? Mussolini? Or the leaders of the English and the Americans? No, nobody understands war, they only think they do. Maybe the earth that drinks up the blood understands it and says: "How foolish is man. Of all the animals that lives upon me, he is the cleverest and the most foolish.”