The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!

The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.

Why can't these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women. It is. That is the reason why, like Eve, they are so excessively anxious to get out of it.

I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood. Don't degrade me into the position of giving you useful information. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

M. Zola is determined to show that, if he has not got genius, he can at least be dull.

What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colourless.

The curves of your lips rewrite history.