Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

The Riviera isn't only a sunny place for shady people.

Because women can do nothing except love, they've given it a ridiculous importance. They want to persuade us that it's the whole of life. It's an insignificant part.

Life is really very fantastic, and one has to have a peculiar sense of humour to see the fun of it. [Virtue]

Culture is not just an ornament; it is the expression of a nation's character, and at the same time it is a powerful instrument to mould character. The end of culture is right living.

Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers.

You're beginning to dislike me, aren't you? Well, dislike me. It doesn't make any difference to me now.