“Everybody one meets is a paradox nowadays. It is a great bore. It makes society so obvious.”

“Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.”

“To get into the best society, nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people - that is all!”

“I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.”

“That is one of the great secrets of life Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.”

“Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.”

“Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions.”