Fashion: by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.

I find that forgiving one's enemies is a most curious morbid pleasure; perhaps I should check it.

To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life.

Well, I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

Women's styles may change but their designs remain the same.

The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.