The extraordinary ability of a woman to forget is not the same as the talent of a lady not to be able to remember.

How powerful social mores are! Only a spider's web lies across the volcano, yet it refrains from erupting.

A white lie is always pardonable. But he who tells the truth without compulsion merits no leniency.

The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

Heinrich Heine so loosened the corsets of the German language that today every little salesman can fondle her breasts.

In Berlin, things are serious but not hopeless. In Vienna, they are hopeless but not serious.

Ideas are transplanted by splitting, thoughts by sprouting.