When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable.

The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.

The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.

Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know.

The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

It is only very ugly or very beautiful women who ever hide their faces .