Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless.
If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others will do your thinking for you.
I'm a man of simple tastes. I'm always satisfied with the best.
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.
The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.
Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground
Its a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes.
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.
Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.
Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.
For one moment our lives met, our souls touched.
Each man kills the thing he loves.
Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
When you really want love, you will find it waiting for you.
One should always be a little improbable.
A passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.
I am happy in my prison of passion.
If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.
I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.
I beg your pardon I didn't recognise you - I've changed a lot.
I drink to separate my body from my soul.
Each of us has heaven and hell in him.