Few are sufficiently wise to prefer censure which is useful to praise which is treacherous.

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.

What are we without belief, without purpose?

What is a Gallagher Girl? She's a genius, a scientist, a heroine, a spy... a Gallagher Girl is whatever she wants to be.

You never want to fail because you didn't work hard enough.

I come from way north. We'd listen to radio shows all the time. I think I was the last generation, or pretty close to the last one, that grew up without TV.

I want to see the stats for how many crosses there have been; it's been incredulous

The cramped monotony of my existence grinds me away by the grain.

I was born trash in a land where the people all believe themselves natural aristocrats.

Oh God, here's my Bible, Here's my money. Here's me. Use me, God.

Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.

It is a great sign of mediocrity to praise always moderately.