Magnanimity is sufficiently defined by its name, nevertheless one can say it is the good sense of pride, the most noble way of receiving praise.

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.

She wore the moonlight like lingerie.

Too much church and too less Jesus is dangerous, it can transform you into a religious person.

And she would not hold back his limbs when his heart was gone to the woods, for it is ever the way of witches with any two things to care for the more mysterious of the two.

The hardest thing of all, is just standing in front of a mirror and not recognizing the reflection.

Some people reckoned that I looked healthier when I was bigger but I had terrible skin and no energy.

The definition of the right of suffrage is very justly regarded as a fundamental article of republican government.

Can our mind evolve to be something other than an extension of our animal needs?

I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine.

The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people's money away quietly, and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly.

The oboe sounds like a clarinet with a cold.