Our wisdom lies as much at the mercy of fortune as our possessions do.

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.

So the I.F. is spying on Earth.""Just as a mother spies on her children at play in the yard.""Good to know you're looking out for us, Mummy.

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

[Donald] Trump would want to cosy up to him for sure, and he'd be right to do that. Which would be good for the world.

A school’s job [is] to begin education.

The fact that in the last 10 years only five of the 40 Turner Prize nominees have been painters tells you more about curators than about the state of painting today.

A Nation's character is typified by its dancers.

Let us hope that good authors who are bad Christians will find salvation through the books they write.

In separateness only does love learn definition.

You can't achieve anything in life without a small amount of sacrifice.

A lie never lives to be old.