The trouble is that thinking looks like loafing. Who wants to pay people for daydreaming?

The value of money is that with it we can tell any man to go to the devil. It is the sixth sense which enables you to enjoy the other five.

Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.

Are you sure you can prevent yourself from falling in love one of these days? Such things do happen, you know, even to the most prudent men.' Simon gave him a strange, one might even have thought a hostile, look. I should tear it out of my heart as I'd wrench out of my mouth a rotten tooth.

I promised myself that if ever I had some money that I would savor a cigar each day after lunch and dinner. This is the only resolution of my youth that I have kept, and the only realized ambition which has not brought disillusion.

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

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