Nothing is so aggravating as calmness.
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
Never speak disrespectfully of Society. Only people who can’t get into it do that.
My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don’t know anything at all.
Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed.
Men always want to be a woman’s first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man’s last romance.
Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.
Life is never fair. And perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it.
