It is not in the power of even the most crafty dissimulation to conceal love long, where it really is, nor to counterfeit it long where it is not.

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.

It isn’t true, is it, Daniel, that music can tame the beasts? Yet, in the end, a song lives.

There's no point in making a plan because somehow it always manages to fall apart.

When a couple came to class together, it meant something else entirely - food as a solution, a diversion, or, occasionally, a playground.

This man Wellington is so stupid he does not know when he is beaten and goes on fighting.

You almost can't wait too long [to get married]. The longer you wait, the better off you are going to be. And the happier your kids are going to be, and the happier a mom you are going to be.

I'm not putting pressure on myself, all I know is I want to do music.

People are a lot smarter than anyone gives them credit for being.

An MP is the only job where you have 70,000 employers, and only one employee.

All things deteriorate in time.

Sometimes you grow out of love.