For everybody knows that it requires very little to satisfy the gentlemen, if a woman will only give her mind to it.

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.

To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.

One only says it is one's duty when one has something disagreeable to do.

The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended.

As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.

It is so seldom in this world that things come just when they are wanted.

Laughing is not the first expression of joy. ... A person laughs in idleness, for fun, not for joy. Joy has nothing, nothing but the old way of tears.

Even in misery we love to be foremost, to have the bitter in our cup acknowledged as more bitter than that of others.

Good works may only be beautiful sins, if they are not done in a true spirit.

All perfection is melancholy.

Worship is not love.

Because that's what narcissism is all about; looking in the mirror everyday and thinking 'Damn, I'd like to shag myself.'

The followers of intelligent design should openly and clearly declare the existence of Allah as the Creator.

That which is eternal in Woman lifts us above.

Owls are known as lonely birds; but it is not known that they have the forest as their best friend!

I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.

Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of woe.

Terror?often arises from a pervasive sense of disestablishment; that things are in the unmaking.

I feel lonely at times, but I don't want to get into a relationship with someone if it is not right. I'm not the type of person who just does things to do them.

Vietnam is unique of all the countries in the world, I believe, in having the longest continuous struggle against foreign aggression of any country that has retained its national identity.