When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.

And how delightful other people's emotions were!—much more delightful than their ideas.

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

Murder is always a mistake. One should never do any thing that one cannot talk about after dinner.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never has the courage to commit.

It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one`s back that are absolutely and entirely true.

The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.

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

"But I didn't say he was married. I said he was engaged to be married. There is a great difference. I have a distinct remembrance of being married, but I have no recollection at all of being engaged. I am inclined to think that I never was engaged.

I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions.

Life has been your art.

I like men who have a future and women who have a past.

Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.