No man has ever yet discovered the way to give friendly advice to any woman, not even to his own wife.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

Oblige me by taking away that knife. I can't look at the point of it. It reminds me of Roman history.

In bad countries the government takes care of everyone. In the best ones that's not necessary!‏

Such indeed was her image, that neither could Shakespeare describe, nor Hogarth paint, nor Clive act, a fury in higher perfection.

Most people would die sooner than think in fact they do.

[In the 1960s]...you could take LSD but you couldn't wear a pantsuit.

Happiness lies not in happiness but only in the attempt to achieve it.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

No one ever really gets used to nightmares.

...It is a legal requirement to carry out animal testing to ensure they are safe and effective

Change is inherent in every form.