The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen. They always want a sixth act, and as soon as the interest of the play is entirely over, they propose to continue it. If they were allowed their own way, every comedy would have a tragic ending, and every tragedy would culminate in a farce. They are charmingly artificial, but they have no sense of art.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

But the past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.

One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

Olvidar un hecho, es modificar el pasado.

Il passato non ha che un unico fascino: quello di essere passato.

One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.

I prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to.

You are young. No hungry generations tread you down. The past does not mock you with the ruins of a beauty the secret of whose creation you have lost