The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
Hearts live by being wounded.
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.