The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.

It is very vulgar to talk about one's own business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then only at dinner parties.

Oh, I don’t care about Jack. I don’t care for anybody in the whole world but you. I love you, Cecily. You will marry me, won’t you? You silly boy! Of course. Why, we have been engaged for the last three months. For the last three months?

The weather still continues charming.

People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself don’t interest me. They have not got the charm of novelty.