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There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

True friends stab you in the front.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.