Fashions after all are only induced epidemics.
We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.
Lack of money is the root of all evil.
Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.
Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire the other is to get it.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give.
The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all.
The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.
I try to follow his example, not to imitate him.
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.
Success covers a multitude of blunders.
The best brought-up children are those who have seen their parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the parents' first duty.
From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way.
The fickleness of the woman I love is equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
It is assumed that the woman must wait motionless until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.