- Be yourself; everyone else is taken.
- We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
- The only difference between the saint and sinners that every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
- The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
- You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
- Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinion, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
- Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
- A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
- You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.
- Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
