Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.

I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.

Nowadays, saying what you really think can be a serious error since one risks being misunderstood.

When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn't expect, just as one should say what she doesn't understand.

I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticized from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art and the sphere of ethics are absolutely distinct and separate.

I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.