Of all our faults the one that we excuse most easily is idleness.

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.

To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.

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.

To be original is not creating your own idea

There was no more good or evil in this world than we imagine there to be, either out of greed or out of innocence. Or sometimes madness.

Femininity is a lot of power. It's allure. And the moment you start competing directly with a man, it's not that fun.

Young ladies should take care of themselves. Young ladies are delicate plants. They should take care of their health and their complexion. My dear, did you change your stockings?

Myths are wonderful - they really tell the stories that connect all of us and teach us so much.

Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never really be whole.

I want to rob a bank with a BB gun. "Give me all your money or I will give you a dimple! I will be rich, you will be cute. We both win."

Failure is life at it's most poignant and it's only there to push you in the right direction.

I did not read Gone with the Wind, although I've seen the movie, and I read every book on Margaret Mitchell.

The speech of one who knows what he is talking about and means what he says-it is thought on fire.