Loyalty is in most people only a ruse used by self-interest to attract confidence.

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.

Inspire someone today. Your action can change that person’s life forever.

Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.

Fine art is the only teacher except torture.

It is the aim of good government to stimulate production, of bad government to encourage consumption.

Somewhere out there was a village I'd deprived of it's idiot.

Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect.

That most people will not accept the fact that you are - and who was it that said that eventually Donald Trump is going to go on television and insists he never ran for president?

Endeavour-with most diligent labour, O aspiring artist!-to master content. The form will rise to meet you.

Ideals, my girl,” she says. “Always easier to believe in than live.” “But if you don't at least try to live them,” Bradley says, “then there's no point in living at all.

There is a fatality about good resolutions – that they are always made too late