Only two tragedies are possible in our life. The first is when you don't get what you want, the second, when you do. The second one is worse, this is truly a tragedy!
In our society, the only class that thinks more about money than the rich is the poor class. Poor people can't think about anything else but money.
In our time, it is dangerous for a husband to pay attention to his wife in society. Everyone will think he's hitting on her when they're alone. Now they are so suspicious that they seem to have a happy marriage.
Underlying every gossip is a well-verified lack of morality.
In the past, writers wrote books and readers read them. Now readers write books and no one reads them.
In a conversation you have to address any topic without focusing on anything.
In Russia, nothing is impossible except reform.
In its defense, journalism can invoke the great Darwinian law of the survival of mediocrity.
In church, everyone must be serious except those they worship.
What is the difference between journalism and literature? Journalism is unreadable, while literature is unreadable.
A great passion - this is the only thing the non-working class is capable of.
Generosity is not contagious.
The great events of the world take place in the brain.
Faith does not become reality just because someone dies for it.
We can only trust those portraits in which the models are barely visible, but in which, instead, the artist is visible.
Fidelity! Someday I will analyze this feeling. In it lies the greed of the owner. Many things we would willingly give up if we were not afraid that someone else would take them.
The whole world is a theater, but the troupe of actors has no value.
A thing existing in nature becomes much more beautiful if it reminds us of an object of art, but an object of art does not become truly beautiful because of the resemblance to the object existing in nature.
Love begins with people deceiving themselves and ends with deceiving the other.
There are only five women in all of London worth talking to, and two of the five have no place in decent society.
In all trivial situations, style is important, not sincerity. In all serious situations, the same.
In a tuxedo and white tie, anyone, even a stockbroker, could be mistaken for a man of culture.
Imagination is given to man to console him for what he does not have, and humor to console him for what he has.
He has no enemies because he is not such a remarkable person.
Time is a waste of money.
All American girls possess an exceptional charm, the secret of which lies in their inability to talk seriously to anyone but their barber, and to think seriously of anything but amusements.
All outstanding personalities are destined, sooner or later, to be at the level of his biographers.
All women eventually become like their mothers. This is their tragedy. No man is like his mother. And this is their tragedy.
Anything can be overcome except death; anything can be borne except a good reputation.
All men are animals. There is only one thing left for women to do, and that is to feed them better.