Novelty is to love like bloom to fruit; it gives a luster which is easily effaced, but never returns.

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.

I liked being a person. I wanted to keep at it.

don't ever think that you're a single in total freedom, but think of combating the forces of lust.

A failure is a man who has blundered but is not able to cash in the experience.

I got up one Christmas morning and we didn't have nothing to eat. We didn't have an apple, we didn't have an orange, we didn't have a cake, we didn't have nothing.

I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.

Depending on how quickly you get ocean rise, you have people who live in river deltas [at risk].

Our distrust of another justifies his deceit.

A person is only complete when she has a true friend to understand her, to share all her passions and sorrows with, and to stand by her throughout her life.

My pitch is very simple. I'm Theresa May and I think I'm the best person to be prime minister of this country.

One cannot review a bad book without showing off.