“The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.”
“The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.”
“Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.”
“The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
“One should always play fair when one has the winning cards.”
“One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.”
“What is said of a man is nothing. The point is, who says it.”
“Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.”
“Flowers are as common in the country as people are in London.”
“He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.”
“The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.”
“It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.”
“Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.”
“Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses -- once!”
“Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.”
“How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say.”
“The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.”
“Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.”
“Good taste is the excuse I have given for leading such a bad life.”
“I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.”
“Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.”
“A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.”
“We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.”
“Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.”
“Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.”
“Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.”
“The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.”
“Ignorance is like a delicate fruit; touch it, and the bloom is gone.”
“Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon.”
“The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.”