Women are like dreams-they are never the way you would like to have them.

Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time. Which isn't easy.

Life is little more than a loan shark: it exacts a very high rate of interest for the few pleasures it concedes.

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.

Life is full of infinite absurdities, which, strangely enough, do not even need to appear plausible, since they are true.

Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or Pope!

In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.

A fact is like a sack which won't stand up when it is empty. In order that it may stand up, one has to put into it the reason and sentiment which have caused it to exist.

The facts are to blame, my friend. We are all imprisoned by facts: I was born, I exist.

My opinion is a view I hold until-well-until I find out something that changes it.