Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.
Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked.
I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.
When good Americans die, they go to Paris.
There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
Life is a nightmare that prevents one from sleeping.
I beg your pardon, I didn’t recognise you – I’ve changed a lot.
Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.
Arguments are to be avoided, they are always vulgar and often convincing.
If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.
If you don’t get everything you want, think of the things you don’t get that you don’t want.
To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.