Women's hearts are like old china, none the worse for a break or two.

It has amazed me that the most incongruous traits should exist in the same person and, for all that, yield a plausible harmony.

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

She alone had been blind to his merit. Why? Because he loved her and she did not love him. What was it in the human heart that made you despise a man because he loved you?

You know, there are two good things in life, freedom of thought and freedom of action. In France you get freedom of action: you can do what you like and nobody bothers, but you must think like everybody else. In Germany you must do what everybody else does, but you may think as you choose. They're both very good things. I personally prefer freedom of thought. But in England you get neither: you're ground down by convention. You can't think as you like and you can't act as you like. That's because it's a democratic nation. I expect America's worse.

There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.

Sherry, the civilized drink.