I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.

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

I have a business appointment that I am anxious... to miss.

Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.

The British cook, for her iniquities, is a foolish woman who should be turned into a pillar of salt which she never knows how to use.

We have quite the same ideas. No; I think our ideas are quite different. But he has been most pleasant.