As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her daughter, she is perfectly satisfied

She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.

The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.

A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?