“I don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.”

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.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.