To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.

Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.

When people talk to us about others they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always interesting.

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.

To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.