"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."
"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends."
"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
"Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much."
"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."
"The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future."
"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist."
"Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more."
"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."
"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong."
"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative."
"The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself."
"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."
"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live."
"True friends stab you in the front."
"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat."
"One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be."
"I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best."
"No man is rich enough to buy back his past."
"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."
"Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us."
"It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating."
"I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself."
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
