"It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true."
"Even things that are true can be proved."
"There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."
"Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing."
"A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her."
"But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to."