Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.

If you are going to tell people the truth, you had better make them laugh or they will kill you.

When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

And let me touch those curving claws of yellow ivory; and grasp the tail that like a monstrous asp coils round your heavy velvet paws.

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize

I can believe anything provided it is quite incredible.