When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.
Only the shallow know themselves.
One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
If one plays good music, people don’t listen and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.
Why was I born with such contemporaries?
The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.