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

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.