Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.
One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
Ambition is the last refuge of failure.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
