That is the worst of women. They always want one to be good. And if we are good, when they meet us, they don't love us at all. They like to find us quite irretrievably bad, and to leave us quite unattractively good.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.

Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Good taste is the excuse I have given for leading such a bad life.

Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.