Honest people will respect us for our merit: the public, for our luck.

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.

Not to do as the child wishes would be wrong because he is born on a path, and it would be evil, a crime against nature to make him deny his spirit.

A scattered mind will produce scattered results.

I enjoy doing drama, and I enjoy doing comedy equally.

Wine has made me bold, but not foolish; has induced me to say silly things, but not do them.

Songs hold different memories for different people and the great ones are the ones that become a part of you and your story.

I had that stubborn streak, the Irish in me I guess.

Years ago I was a runway model, and I used to get laughs. I thought it was a joke anyway

Go into yourself. Dig into yourself for a deep answer

Besides, when not hard at work with this research, I'm actually conducting a side experiment on how cigarettes and gin increase charisma. As you might guess, the results are looking very promising.

Never trust people that like to call things by initials, that's my philosophy.