"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."
"I can resist everything except temptation."
"The basis of optimism is sheer terror."
"To define is to limit."
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
"Life imitates art far more than art imitates life."
"The way of paradoxes is the way of truth."
"Beauty is a form of genius."
"The secret to remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming."
"Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary."
"I can explain everything except my own life."
"Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory."
"The youth of the present are quite monstrous."
"One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age."
"Conscience and cowardice are really the same things."
"I can sympathize with everything except suffering."
"A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her."
"The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future."
"I am too fond of the good things of life to want to give them up."
"Ugliness is one of the seven deadly virtues."
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
"My dear boy, the people who love only once in their lives are the shallow people."
"There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies."
"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."
"The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about."
"When I like people immensely, I never tell their names to anyone."
"There is no such thing as a good influence. All influence is immoral."Philosophy
"The basis of optimism is sheer terror."Philosophy
"Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know."Art
"I can resist everything except temptation."Wisdom