In Paris, where raillery is so quick to throw emotion out the window, silence, in a roomful of clever people after a story, is the most flattering of all marks of success

For in Paris, whenever God puts a pretty woman there (the streets), the Devil, in reply, immediately puts a fool to keep her.

We priests are the surgeons of souls, and it is our duty to deliver them of shameful secrets they would fain conceal, with hands careful to neither wound no pollute.

Yet, whether to the glory or to the shame of human nature, in what we call pleasure (with an excess of scorn, perhaps) there are abysses as deep as those of love.

They had...finished their lives before their death – which is not always the end of life and often comes long before the end.

The Devil teaches women what they are – or they would teach it to the Devil if he did not know.

Beauty is single. Only ugliness is multiple, and even then its multiplicity is soon exhausted.

(it was) beautiful, like so many senseless things.

Men are all the same. Novelty amongst themselves displeases and upsets them – but if the novelty is wearing a skirt, they go crazy f

He was terrified by the sublime horror of it, for intensity of feeling, carried to this degree, is sublime. ("A Woman's Vengeance")

I did not want to be taken for a fool – the typical French reason for performing the worst of deeds without remorse.

Man is not the creature of circumstances Circumstances are the creatures of men.

You must be a poet, a lady of evil luck desiring to be what you are not, longing to be what you can only visit.

You start way down on a low B flat on the tuba and you have a chromatic scale; you can match the colours all the way up, till you get to the top of the trumpet.

Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

A women who knows her true value will only put up with a mans nonsense for so long, you either get right or get left.

People cry at weddings for the same reason they cry at happy endings: because they so desperately want to believe in something they know is not credible.

I'm who I was waiting for. I didn't make it.

I do not think very highly of Madame D'Arblay's books. The style is so strutting. She does so stalk about on Dr. Johnson's old stilts.

Jude [Law] is really good at playing an obsessive. He has a very watchable quality when he's on a quest for something.

A great wave of oppressive tyranny isn't going to strike, but rather a slow seepage of oppressive laws and regulations from within will sink the American dream of liberty. George Baumler Quotes.