"The aim of life is self-development, to realize one's nature perfectly."
"Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable."
"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live."
"The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring."
"The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes."
"Crying is the refuge of plain women, but the ruin of pretty ones."
"I like men who have a future and women who have a past."
"Alas, I am dying beyond my means."
"Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the two sexes."
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."
"When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable."
"In the world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it."
"It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating."
"The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation."
"Only the shallow know themselves."
"It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give a really unbiased opinion, which is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always valueless."
"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong."
"The longer I live, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us."
"Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them."
"No, Ernest, don't talk about actionÖ. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream."
"In the world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it."
"The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius."
"It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible."
"Life is too important to be taken seriously."
"The only difference between the saint and sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future."