“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”

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.

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.