To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.
The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
Are ALL men bad?Oh, all of them, my dear, all of them, without any exception. And they never grow any better. Men become old, but they never become good..
To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.
You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.
To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.
Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval.
Never regret thy fall,O Icarus of the fearless flight
Man is many things, but he is not rational.
You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.
The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves and fibers and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.
What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities.
Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character.
To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
All I want to do now is look at life. You may come and look at it with me, if you care to.