“The real drawback to marriage is that it makes one unselfish. And unselfish people are colourless. They lack individuality.”

“You seem to forget that I am married, and the one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.”

“What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colourless.”

“The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. One should always be in love - that's the reason one should never marry.”

“The real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.”

“Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building.”

“Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.”