I do not think you want too much sincerity in society. It would be like an iron girder in a house of cards.

I don't think that women ought to sit down at table with men. It ruins conversation and I'm sure it's very bad for them. It puts ideas in their heads, and women are never at ease with themselves when they have ideas.

The good traveler has the gift of surprise.

It must be that there is something naturally absurd in a sincere emotion, though why there should be I cannot imagine, unless it is that man, the ephemeral inhabitant of an insignificant planet, with all his pain and all his striving is but a jest in an eternal mind.

Kant thought things, not because they were true, but because he was Kant.

There is only one thing about which I am certain, and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain

If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.