A kiss may ruin a human life

For one moment our lives met, our souls touched.

Life is the art of being well deceived, and to succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted.

I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all.

Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching.

All bad art is the result of good intentions.

As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.