A priest can achieve great victories with an army of women at his command.

When once estrangement has arisen between those who truly love each other, everything seems to widen the breach.

Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea.

Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to hold herself within herself, and take no colour from the outer world.

My intellect is a little way upon the wrong side of that narrow boundary-line between sanity and insanity.

Our virtues, as well as our vices, are often scourges for our own backs.

The strongest proof of repentance is the endeavor to atone.

Self-assertion may deceive the ignorant for a time; but when the noise dies away, we cut open the drum, and find it was emptiness that made the music.

Guilt soon learns to lie.

How chronic is the unconcern of men and women of the world!

Paris is a mighty schoolmaster, a grand enlightener of the provincial intellect.

Go to bed smarter than when you woke up.

Being in Harry Potter is like being in the Mafia. Once you are in, you are never really out.

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy even if you're not part of their happiness.

Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.

Yeah, I get a death scene, but what does that mean?

I must have my share in the conversation.

I have to lie, if I don't want to take madmen seriously and become a madman myself

Drawing is a kind of hypnotism: one looks in such a way at the model, that he comes and takes a seat on the paper.

...I loved to dance in studios, but not necessarily on stage. What I loved was to sweat and to feel every single pore open up

Are you asking me to undress, Tris?' A nervous laugh gurgles from my throat. 'Only ... partially