 Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. |
| To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness. |
| As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied. |
| A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. |
| All art is quite useless. |
| Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life. |
| A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction. |
| No man is rich enough to buy back his past. |
| The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you. |
| One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards. |
| Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are. |
| Illusion is the first of all pleasures. |
| A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. |
| There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad. |
| There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. |
| The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. |
| When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers. |
| Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes. |
| A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her. |
| In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin. |
