Hypocrisy is the homage which vice renders to virtue.

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.

To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.

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.

My mother wanted me to be a teacher. She had this vision of me walking across the quadrangle in an Oxford college wearing my academic gown.

Though a revolution may call itself "national," it always marks the victory of a single party.

The total number of minds in the universe is one.

Most fruits, if left alone on a tree, eventually do ripen, especially if they're not being yelled at.

The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can.

Remember,' she'd tell her staff, 'every customer wants to feel like a princess, and princesses are selfish and overbearing.

I've never stopped being a refugee.

My father got along with everyone.

Sometimes it's to your advantage for people to think you're crazy

I started skiing around the same time as I began playing the piano, at around four, before moving to the violin at five.