How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say.
Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.
I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity.
In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
[on his deathbed in a Paris hotel room] Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.