I didn't have a life until I went up onstage.

She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret.

Don't give a woman advice; one should never give a woman anything she can't wear in the evening.

All bad art is the result of good intentions.

Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. And a sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market place of any single thing.