“I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.”

“My father told me to go to bed an hour ago. I don't see why I shouldn't give you the same advice. I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of ant use to oneself.”

“I believe that you are really a very good husband but that you are thoroughly ashamed of your own virtues. You are an extraordinary fellow. You never say a moral thing and you never do a wrong thing. Your cynicism is simply a pose.”

“The only things that one can use in fiction are the things that one has ceased to use in fact.”

“In love, one always begins in deceiving oneself, and one always ends in deceiving others.”

“I never take any notice to what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.”

“Oh I can't explain. When I like people immensely I never tell their names to any one. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvellous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.”