The truth isn't quite the sort of thing that one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl.
If one plays good music people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
How fond women are of doing dangerous things. It is one of the qualities in them that I admire most. A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.
Englishwomen conceal their feelings till after they are married. They show them then.
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless.
Life is terrible. It rules us, we do not rule it.
In art there is no such thing as a universal truth. A truth in art is that whose contradictory is also true.
One's days are too brief to take the burden of another's sorrows on one's shoulders. Each man lives his own life, and pays his own price for living it. The only pity is that one has to pay so often for a single fault. One has to pay over and over again, indeed. In her dealings with man Destiny never closes her accounts.
Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy.