There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

Pleasure without Champagne is purely artificial.

If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity.

The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope.

It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they give up thinking what is charming.

Oh, don't cough, Ernest. When one is dictating one should speak fluently and not cough. Besides, I don't know how to spell a cough.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.