“When people say: She's got everything. I've only one answer: I haven't had tomorrow.”

“I've only slept with the men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?”

“A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.”

“He almost dared to say that her graying mustache gave her a military look, a more distinguished air: his private smile at the thought he had withheld ruffled her as much.”

“Its best to turn to no one, to seek to please no one, as if there were only oneself in the world. The pleasure of others is a by-product after all, and if ever the whispering voices are allowed to crowd out the one voice, the result is this...a sort of high-pitched silliness, a terrible silliness.”

“When the sun comes up, I have morals again.”

“The most sensible thing to do to people you hate is to drink their brandy.”