Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

Children start out loving their parents, but as they grow older and discover their parents are human, they become judgmental. And sometimes, when they mature, they forgive their parents, especially when they discover they are also human.

Pleasure without Champagne is purely artificial.

memory, like a horrible malady, was eating his soul away