Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.
I am not yet young enough to know everything.
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.
Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
The only way to atone for being occasionally overdressed is to be massively overeducated.
Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.