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

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

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

Every woman is a rebel.

Who, being loved, is poor?

Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.

Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.

I am not young enough to know everything.

Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won’t be invited to cocktail parties.

Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

You can’t make a good deal with a bad person.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.

Never lie, steal, cheat, or drink. But if you must lie, lie in the arms of the one you love. If you must steal, steal away from bad company. If you must cheat, cheat death. And if you must drink, drink in the moments that take your breath away.

If the truth is told, things are just as bad as you yourself care to make them.

I believe more and more that God must not be judged on this earth. It is one of His sketches that has turned out badly.

A man’s hatred is always concentrated upon that which makes him conscious of his bad qualities.

There are no good girls gone wrong – just bad girls found out.