Only the mediocre are always at their best.

An agreement is never reached in love. The life of a wife and husband who love each other is never at rest. Whether the marriage is true or false, the marriage portion is the same: elemental discord.

You're an Attorney. It's your duty to lie, conceal, and distort everything, and slander everybody.

Half the human race can change its name and sometimes its nation without suffering — at least half! All women!

All the evil in the world is the fault of the self-styled pure in heart, a result of their eagerness to unearth secrets and expose them to the light of the sun.

Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.

To seek out in a world full of joy the one thing that is certain to give you pain, and hug it to your bosom with all your strength; that's the greatest human happiness.