It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs.

Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.

I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people.

I am afraid that woman appreciate cruelty, downright cruelty, more than anything else. They have wonderfully primitive instincts. We have emancipated them, but they remain slaves looking for their masters, all the same. They love being dominated.

I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die.

When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.