Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter; is he not also the only one that deserves to be laughed at?

Taste may be compared to that exquisite sense of the bee, which instantly discovers and extracts the quintessence of every flower, and disregards all the rest of it.

Habit is the cement of society, the comfort of life, and, alas! The root of error.

O wearisome condition of humanity! Born under one law, to another bound; Vainly begot and yet forbidden vanity; Created sick, commanded to be sound.

Man is said to be a rational creature; but should it not rather be said, that man is a creature capable of being rational, as we say a parrot is a creature capable of speech?

The mind's eye is perhaps no better fitted for the full radiance of truth, than is the body's for that of the sun.

The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens.

There are sometimes beauties in a character which would never have appeared but for a defect, and defects which would never have appeared but for a beauty.

Love will sacrifice more to others than friendship, but then it exacts more from them.

How happy is it for us, that the admiration of others should depend so much more on their ignorance than our perfection!

Pleasure is the business of the young, business the pleasure of the old.

What the sense feels, what the spirit perceives, is never an end in itself. But sense and spirit would like to persuade you that they are the end of all things: they are as vain as that.

To experiment with love is to play with fire.

The only thing that really matters is to be. Man is

If you've got cool nails, you wake up and you're like, 'Oh, I'm happy now.'

I was France.

There is hope for me yet Because God won't forget All the plans he's made for me I have to wait and see He's not finished with me yet

she’s not as pretty as you,” I said “But she’s a simpler girl,” my mother whispered.

Any man can shoot a gun, and with practice he can draw fast and shoot accurately, but that makes no difference. What counts is how you stand up when somebody is shooting back at you.

I don't like the American media - particularly Fox.

Take your tongue out of my mouth, I'm kissing you good-bye.