Every man--I know this--turns weak, pliant, ridiculous as soon as he's in love.

You modern men, you children of reason, cannot begin to appreciate love as pure bliss and divine serenity.

You know how to paint pleasure, cruelty, arrogance in glowing colors.

You have corrupted my imagination and inflamed my blood.

Never feel safe with the woman you love, for a woman's nature conceals more dangers than you think.

Be then my slave, and know what it means to be delivered into the hands of a woman.

Whoever allows himself to be whipped, deserves to be whipped.

A real apple is more beautiful than a painted one, and a live woman is more beautiful than a Venus of stone.

The person who doesn't know how to subjugate will all too quickly feel the other's foot on the nape of his neck.

Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason.

Desire followed the glance, pleasure followed desire

You can only be in a bad mood for so long before you have to face up to the fact that it isn't a bad mood at all

When you are entrusted with a secret, you become irrevocably accountable for what you do or don't do after your mind is colored by the knowledge of it.

What I do with my kids is - and I think they probably do ignore us - is No Alcohol. If they're drunk they will be grounded for time immemorial.

As historians, our training and discipline is based on documentary evidence,.

America's problem is too much political correctness.

I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don't see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas.

The things I thought would happen didn't. Things I never anticipated unfolded.

I go through about two Fender mediums a night because I don't pick straight down; it's sort of sideways, and it shaves them off.

It is a principle of diplomacy that one must know something of the truth in order to lie convincingly.

I have been long a sleeper; but I trust My absence doth neglect no great design Which by my presence might have been concluded.