Thirty-five is a very attractive age, London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remind thirty-five for years.
One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that, would tell one anything.
Show respect for age. Drink good scotch for a change. The old believe everything: the middle aged suspect everything: the young know everything.
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
I don't desire to change anything in England except the weather.
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
A Cynic is one who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.
The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything; the young know everything.
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
When a man has once loved a woman be will do anything for her except continue to love her.
How marriage ruins a man! it is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Only the shallow know themselves.
Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex.
When the Gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.
Moderation is a fatal thing nothing succeeds like excess.
Experience is the name that everyone gives to his mistakes.
There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
Women are made to be loved, not understood.
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Success is a science, if you have the conditions, you get the result.
One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
I put all my genius into my life, I put only my talent into my works.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
