Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being?
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
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.
Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.