“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.”

I can resist everything except temptation.

True friends stab you in the front.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.