A
cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.
A man's face
is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
Always forgive
your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
An idea that
is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
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.
Bigamy is
having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
Every saint
has a past and every sinner has a future.
Experience is
simply the name we give our mistakes.
Fashion is a
form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
How marriage
ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
I always pass
on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to
oneself.
I have the
simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
I never travel
without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the
train.
I think that
God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
If there was
less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
It is absurd
to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
Life is never
fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
Life is too
important to be taken seriously.
Moderation is
a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
Morality is
simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
No man is rich
enough to buy back his past.
Of course
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed
up.
One should
always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
Only the
shallow know themselves.
Ordinary
riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious
things that cannot be taken from you.
Self-denial is
the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.
Selfishness is
not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to
live.
Some cause
happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
The one charm
about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for
both parties.
The only way
to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but
temptation.
The pure and
simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
There are only
two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely
everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
There are only
two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is
getting it.
There is no
sin except stupidity.
There is no
such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly
written.
There is no
such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too
cruel for that.
There is
nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no
married man knows anything about.
There is only
one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked
about.
To love
oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
When I was
young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am
old I know that it is.
Who, being
loved, is poor?
Women are made
to be loved, not understood.