Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
To define is to limit.
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
No good deed goes unpunished.
A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
Every woman is a rebel.
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one’s self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.
The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.
I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.
To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.