All publicity is good publicity.

Either you have a rival or you don't. If you have one, you must please in order to be preferred to him, and if you don't you must still please-in order to avoid having one.

Cast between the extremes of happiness and misfortune, uncertainty is a cruel torment.

I willingly allow that money does not guarantee happiness; but it must also be allowed that it makes happiness a great deal easier to achieve.

A man enjoys the happiness he feels, a woman the happiness she gives.

La vengeance est un plat qui se mange froid

Revenge is a dish that is best served cold.

Humanity is not perfect in any fashion; no more in the case of evil than in that of good. The criminal has his virtues, just as the honest man has his weaknesses.

Marquise de Merteuil: I've distilled every thing to one single principle: win or die.

I assure you that the world is not so amusing as we imagined.

I see you are already as timid as a slave: you might as well be in love.

If it's fiction, then it better be true.

I no longer needed to peel myself of my skin, or to hide. To Dash the colorless ephemeral things that existed just beneath my surface were as vivid as the beauty marks he traced on my cheek.

As an actor you want to just like, act as much as possible.

A man armed with a rhyming dictionary is a dangerous man.

I was student council president in high school, and even in law school, I was vice-president of the student bar association.

How boring to copy the past -- with all the magnificence of today and tomorrow.

Society ... can afford to grant more than before because its interests have become the innermost drives of its citizens.

I am not an Englishman, I was never an Englishman, and I don't ever want to be one. I am a Scotsman! I was a Scotsman and I will always be one.

The only thing I could think of was turkey neck and turkey gizzards and I felt very depressed.

Real people are made out of a whole lot of things-flesh, bone, blood, nerves, stuff like that. Literary people are made out of words.