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.

Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations.

And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection?

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.