It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.

The one charm of the past is that it is the past.

Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay.

The beautiful, passionate, ruined South, the land of magnolias and music, of roses and romance . . . living on the memory of crushing defeats

The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.

It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.