However virtuous a woman may be, a compliment on her virtue is what gives her the least pleasure.

The Congress of Vienna does not walk, but it dances.

Even beauty may present a prism wearying to the eye.

I should like to enflame the whole world with my taste for gardening. There is no virtue that I would not attribute to the man who lives to project and execute gardens.

In love it is only the commencement that charms. I am not surprised that we find pleasure in frequently recommencing.

Women are the guardians of morality.

Glory is sometimes a low courtesan who on the road entices many who did not think of her. They are astonished to obtain favors without having done anything to deserve them.

The most happy women within their homes are those who have married sensible men. The latter suffer themselves to be governed with so much the more pleasure, as they are always masters of themselves.

Be mindful to love and appreciate yourself and become your own champion. This healthy and loving relationship will be felt when people meet you.

Americans bred like rabbits, expecting the reaper to slaughter at least a few before they reached ripeness.

There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.

From her perch more than a kilometer aboveground, she surveys the city that never sleeps, glittering and coruscating in the rain like a metaphor for her glamorous life.

White is actually one of my favorite colors. I have a white car. I love white.

Truly, the only stupid people I've ever met, the most absolutely clueless, are the very people that produce television.

All damaged people are dangerous. Survival makes them so.' 'Why?' 'Because they have no pity. They know what others can survive, as they did.

The hero, in living her own life, in being true to herself; radiates a light by which others may see their own way.

Normally, if someone goes bankrupt, you wipe out the debt and get a fresh start. But that's not permitted with student loans. So the effect is to impoverish many graduates with very high debts.

The beginning is God. The end is action. Action is God creating-or God experienced.