If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever. It is a meaningless word, too. The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

Love is like a war; easy to start but hard to end and you never know where it might take you.

Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.

When people talk to us about others they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always interesting.

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

Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women...merely adored.