Duty is what one expects from others.

The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.

I don't know how to talk. Oh! talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.

Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.

Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Sins of the soul alone are shameful.

A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen.

I like men who have a future and women who have a past.