I prefer a loose woman to a selfish one and a wanton to a fool.

People who ask for your criticism want only praise.

One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.

Through the history of the world there have always been exploiters and exploited. There always will be ... because the great mass of men are made by nature to be slaves, they are unfit to control themselves, and for their own good need masters.

Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.

The ideas for stories that thronged my brain would not let me rest till I had got rid of them by writing them.

Love is not always blind and there are few things that cause greater wretchedness than to love with all your heart someone who you know is unworthy of love.