What terrible tragedies realism inflicts on people.

Loving someone is different from being in love with someone. You can hate someone you're in love with

The jealous are the readiest of all to forgive, and all women know it.

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.

He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarize it and who caricature every cause they serve, however sincerely.

I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. I am a most unpleasant man.