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

How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.

The secret of play-writing can be given in two maxims: stick to the point, and, whenever you can, cut.

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

Self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion.

I have always been convinced that if a woman once made up her mind to marry a man, nothing but instant flight could save him.

You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct.