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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Man can believe the impossible, but can never believe the improbable.

Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man's last romance.

Scandal: gossip made tedious by morality.

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

There is no sin except stupidity.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

To get into the best society nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people.

Personally, I have a great admiration for stupidity.

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

To have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you.

Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life.

Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.