“The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.”

One should always be in love. That’s the reason one should never marry.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.

You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.

I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one’s self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.

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

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

People will try and confine you in adjectives, they will either declare you beautiful or call you ugly, either way it will box you, rise above their perception of you, free yourself and let your deeds define you.

The blade itself incites to deeds of violence.

Every man’s last day is fixed. Lifetimes are brief, and not to be regained, for all mankind. But by their deeds to make their fame last: that is labor for the brave.

Every man’s last day is fixed. Lifetimes are brief, and not to be regained, for all mankind. But by their deeds to make their fame last: that is labor for the brave.

No good deed goes unpunished.

Love must be proved by deeds and not by reasons.

I want friends, not admirers. People who respect me for my character and my deeds, not my flattering smile.

The Best sign of Wisdom is the consistency between the words and deeds.