Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.

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.

If we love each other without creating a race war, people wouldn't get hurt that much, and feelings too.

Simplicity is the key to happiness.

Occasionally the state of the planet can knock me off my perky perch.

It's very hard to know what wisdom is

I think I'm in a business where you have to look good, and it's totally youth-oriented.

Some of my favorite characters that I've played have been very pompous because I love making fun of pompous people.

The evil done by oneself, self-begotten, self-bred, crushes the foolish, as a diamond breaks a precious stone.

Meeting someone is God's doing, but parting is what humans do themselves.

It will help erase the idea that politics is a second-rate profession and a dirty business.

Say, thou art mine; and ever, My love, as it begins, shall so persevere