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

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.

Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.

I like men who have a future and women who have a past.

The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.