Caprice in woman is the antidote to beauty.

The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.

No road is to long for him who advances slowly and does not hurry and no attainment is beyond his reach who equips himself with patience to achieve it

Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.

The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.

A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.

Courtly manners are contagious; they are caught at Versailles.

We are more sociable, and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect.

A prince wants only the pleasure of private life to complete his happiness.

There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it.

Out of difficulties grow miracles.

Oh, my goodness, ” said Louisiana. “I’m just all filled up with feathers and regrets. And fears. I have a lot of fears.

The longer the silence remains untouched the longer the miscommunication creates its own stories.

A dove struggling in a storm grows stronger than an eagle soaring in sunshine.

Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.

Don't shed no tears, no woman, no cry.

Sadness does not inhere in things; it does not reach us from the world and through mere contemplation of the world. It is a product of our own thought. We create it out of whole cloth.

As for becoming queen, it was never on the forefront of my mind when I married my husband. It was a long way off, that thought.

I believe that birth control is just like every other medication even though it's a controlled substance.

When forced to work within a strict framework, the imagination is taxed to its utmost and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom, the work is likely to sprawl.

Who then can so softly bind up the wound of another as he who has felt the same wound himself.