My own business always bores me to death. I prefer other people's.
Don't be led astray into the paths of virtue—that is the worst of women. They always want one to be good. And if we are good, when they meet us they don't love us at all. They like to find us quite irretrievably bad and to leave us quite unattractively good.
Men are such cowards. They outrage every law in the world and are afraid of the world's tongue.
Wicked women bother one. Good women bore one. That is the only difference between them.
To know the principles of the highest art is to know the principles of all the arts.
I don't believe in the existence of Puritan women. I don't think there is a woman in the world who would not be a little flattered if one made love to her. It is that which makes women so irresistibly adorable.
When I am in trouble eating is the only thing that consoles me. Indeed, when I am in really great trouble, as anyone who knows me intimately will tell you, I refuse everything except food and drink.
When one is going to lead an entirely new life one requires regular and wholesome meals.
The soul is born old, but grows young. That is the comedy of life. The body is born young, and grows old. That is life's tragedy.
One can survive everything nowadays except death, and live down anything except a good reputation.