Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.
I have nothing to declare except my genius.
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.