“How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.”

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

To lose one parent, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

When I fall in love, it will be forever.

Love is more than an emotion, it is a decision.

Love means having to say you’re sorry every fifteen minutes.

But I love your feet only because they walked upon the earth and upon the wind and upon the waters, until they found me.

Language is the source of misunderstandings.

He wants to put his story next to hers.

We all need someone to listen to us.

Take bread away from me, if you wish, take air away, but do not take from me your laughter.