The people who bind themselves to systems are those who are unable to encompass the whole truth and try to catch it by the tail; a system is like the tail of truth, but truth is like a lizard; it leaves its tail in your fingers and runs away knowing full well that it will grow a new one in a twinkling.

What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.

He was the soul of politeness to everyone -- to some with a hint of aversion, to others with a hint of respect.

Every man's happiness is built on the unhappi-ness of another.

I am a flirt: I have no heart: I have an actor's nature.

Don't force me into saying what I don't want to say, and what I won't say.

I'm incapable of describing the feeling with which I left. I wouldn't want it ever to be repeated, but I would have considered myself unfortunate if I'd never experienced it.