Consolation for unhappiness can often be found in a certain satisfaction we get from looking unhappy.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.

Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.

Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.

There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.

Cultivate plants which attract lovely company.

There is no right person or wrong person. They only differ in the level of consciousness.

It was tempting to take refuge in feelings of British superiority, although I disliked myself for it and hoped it didn't show.

One can find women who have never had a love affair but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.

And hail their queen, fair regent of the night.

A mere chronicle of observed events will produce only journalism; combined with a sensitive memory, it can produce art.

I will seek to reverse the shift of benefits from Medicaid to Medicare and hold harmless our seniors and disabled.

To Kill A Mockingbird is one of my favourite novels, my mum brought me up reading it, and it never fails to move me.

Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation.

Anything you do, let it come from you. Then it will be new.