Book: A woman of no importance. Page 3

Children begin with the fact that the love of parents. Then they judge them. And almost never forgive.

In the temple everyone should be serious, in addition, is worshipped.

The secret of life is is to to treat everything as easily as possible.

We women adore failures. We are their support.

We have always been picturesque protests against the mere existence of common sense.

I am disgraced: he is not. That's all. The usual story of men and women, so it was and always will be. And the ending is the ordinary ending. Woman suffers. The man goes free.

Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin. But twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building.

Talk to every woman as if you in love with her, and with every man as if he bored you, and at the end of the first season you will have the reputation of a fashionable man with extraordinary tact.

Who is poor, if you love him? No one, not one person. I hate
their wealth. It crushes me. Let him share it with me.

When one is in love one begins by deceiving oneself.
And ends up by deceiving others. It is called the light of love.

- I never intend to grow old. The soul is born old but grows young. In this Comedy of life.
- And the body is born young and grows old. This is the tragedy of life.

Never trust a woman who does not hide his years. A woman who says how old she is, can tell anything.
Another translation:
You should never trust a woman who tells you her age. A woman is capable of that, capable of anything.

As far as I can tell, the only purpose of life at the present-day young women are playing with fire. The one advantage of playing with fire, that one never gets even singed.
Fired only those who do not know the rules of the game.

No secret life there. The purpose of life, if it is, to be always looking for temptations.