A burnt child loves the fire.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.

Anybody can sympathise with all the sufferings of the pal, nevertheless it involves an extremely great mother nature to sympathise by using a friend's achievement.

Oh, I love London Society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be.

It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.