Some good qualities are like the senses: Those who are entirely deprived of them can have no notion of them.

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.

Do you ever find yourself climbing into an open grave during a bombing raid..and wish you'd just stayed in bed?

I am learning that man can live profoundly without masses of things.

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.

Once you start buying first aid kits you start having accidents.

Any artist who doesn't think he's the best should quit.

Popular culture is filled with girls.

I thought equality was non-negotiable.

God can be seen Even by the poorest fool, But not by the self-styled, God-arguing Intellectual giants.

Small talk is the biggest talk we do.

The first years in Parliament I did nothing - nothing to any purpose. My own distinction was my darling object.