Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.

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

I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the center of the world.

You tend to close your eyes to truth, beauty and goodness because they give no scope to your sense of the ridiculous.

As lovers, the difference between men and women is that women can love all day long, but men only at times.

It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest.

A man filled with meat turns his back on the dry bones of political doctrine. Fanatical devotion to the ruling party comes more readily from the materially deprived At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.