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No good deed goes unpunished.

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The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.

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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.

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She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.

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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

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I have nothing to declare except my genius.

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Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

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Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

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The English novels are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed. But one should not be too severe on them. They show a want of knowledge t...more

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I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.

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There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

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Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.

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Men always want to be a woman's first love, -women want to be a man's last romance.

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One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry.

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If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.