Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.

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.

The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist, " says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.

Time only goes in that one direction.

I make really good pasta sauce. The secret to getting it right is just patience and love.

That soul-subduing sentiment, harshly called flirtation, which is the spell of a country house.

Mona Lisa must have had the highway blues; you can tell by the way she smiles.

Marrying a woman for her beauty makes no more sense than eating a bird for its singing. But it's a common mistake nonetheless.

There is no such thing as a guilty pleasure.

In morals, always do as others do; in art, never.

Many count on their disadvantages to cover for them.

Do you create anything, or just criticize others work and belittle their motivations?