The bachelors admired freedom is often a yoke, for the freer a man is to himself the greater slave he often is to the whims of others.
The notion that as a man grows older his illusions leave him is not quite true. What is true is that his early illusions are supplanted by new, and to him, equally convincing illusions.
I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost.
An abstainer is the sort of man you wouldn't want to drink with even if he did.
It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.
What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency.
Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor.
Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.
A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to.
A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.
Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired.
One does not go to the theater to see life and nature; one goes to see the particular way in which life and nature happen to look to a cultivated, imaginative and entertaining man who happens, in turn, to be a playwright.
Men go to the theatre to forget; women, to remember.
A man may be said to love most truly that woman in whose company he can feel drowsy in comfort.
Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.
Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.
A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.