One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.
The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher.
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain.
Conscience makes egotists of us all.
When people talk to us about others they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always interesting.