“Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others.”
“We are all created to be miserable, and that we all know it, and all invent means of deceiving each other. And when one sees the truth, what is one to do?”
“To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew that it is the greatest of evils.”
“Gold we’ve got, humping we want – debauch! debauch!”
“Sometimes, when I can't get to sleep, I imagine all the rules I'd invent if I ever got to be in charge of the world.”
“After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.”