The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made.
Each day the worst of our faults, our deficiencies, our crimes, the truth of our lives, is stifled under a triple layer of forgetfulness, death and the ordinary course of justice.
Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?
One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.
Falsehood is the jockey of misfortune.
When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome.