An ugly woman, married to King Henry VIII, would have defied the axe and daunted her husband's infidelities.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.

Why do you have to be so damn cryptic?

Young lovers. If you get it right, it's amazing what you can share. The challenging part is maintaining it.

Moonlight lined the windowsills like a fall of snow.

Some of us are born in the right place, and some of us have to go look for it.

My inventory of people who can save me is down to just me.

I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me.

The people are as severe toward the clergy as toward women; they want to see absolute devotion to duty from both.

Hollywood is run by Jews, it is owned by Jews.

As you can see, I am immersing myself in color-I've held back from that until now; and I don't regret it.