Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.

The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.

I am afraid he has one of those terribly weak natures that are susceptible to influence.

Friendship never forgets. That is the wonderful thing about it.

My dear Arthur, I never talk scandal. I only talk gossip. What is the difference between scandal and gossip? Oh! Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.

Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to.