The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.

There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.

There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.

Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.

Oh, well, if you want original conversations, you'd better go and talk to yourself.