Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.

A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten.

I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.