It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.

The supreme vice is shallowness.

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.

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

As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back.