"Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue cleverer than another."

"The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible."

"We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow."

"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself."

"I love acting. It is so much more real than life."

"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you."

"'Wrong' is one of those concepts that depends on witnesses."

"Scandal is great entertainment because it allows people to feel contempt, a moral emotion that gives feeling of moral superiority while asking nothing in return."

"The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others."

"Truth is the secret of eloquence and of virtue, the basis of moral authority; it is the highest summit of art and life."

"Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right."

"We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach."