Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!
After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.
The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.
After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies that were not my own.
If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn’t. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.
Those whom the gods love grow young.
The moon in her chariot of pearl.
Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.
The curves of your lips rewrite history.
A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain.
Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.
In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.
I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor.
Some people always know the price, but not the value.