Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.

The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher.

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good in man That wastes and withers there.

You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?

Life is too short to be in a hurry.