"Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level."
"Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance."
"What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying."
"One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything."
"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."
"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring."