Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.
Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are.
One’s past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating…
Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use reading it at all.
I suppose society is wonderfully delightful! To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it simply a tragedy. Society is a necessary thing.
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
