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, remained thirty-five for years.
I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.
A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.
The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.
If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.
Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience and rebellion that progress has been made.