Literature is a vast bazaar where customers come to purchase everything except mirrors.

Poetry is man's rebellion against being what he is.

No lady is ever a gentleman.

Why is the King of Hearts the only one that hasn't a moustache?

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

While it is well enough to leave footprints on the sands of time, it is even more important to make sure they point in a commendable direction.

People never want to be told anything they do not believe already.

Time changes all things and cultivates even in herself an appreciation of irony, and, therefore, why shouldn't I have changed a trifle?

Good and evil keep very exact accounts... and the face of every man is their ledger.

Creeds matter very little... The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. So I elect for neither label.

People must have both their dreams and their dinners in this world, and when we go out of it we must take what we find. That is all.

The end of love looks like the beginning of war

Don't let fear or insecurity stop you from trying new things. Believe in yourself. Do what you love. And most importantly, be kind to others, even if you don't like them.

If you're happy you're wealthy! Happiness doesn't need a bank account.

It is not possible to define. Nothing has ever been finally found out. Because there is nothing final to find out.

Being too thin. Being bigger. I've been criticized for being on both sides of the scale.

Just believe everything I tell you, and it will all be very, very simple.' Ah, well, I'm not sure I believe that.

The important part of the present development is the anti-capitalist sentiment that is permeating our people.

I'm not concerned with noise because I'm playing the long game.

Ideological differences are no excuse for rudeness.

Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.