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

Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. Besides, each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed man.

I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood.

All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life.

The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not its growth and development.

How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say.