The Congress of Vienna does not walk, but it dances.

Even beauty may present a prism wearying to the eye.

I should like to enflame the whole world with my taste for gardening. There is no virtue that I would not attribute to the man who lives to project and execute gardens.

In love it is only the commencement that charms. I am not surprised that we find pleasure in frequently recommencing.

Women are the guardians of morality.

Glory is sometimes a low courtesan who on the road entices many who did not think of her. They are astonished to obtain favors without having done anything to deserve them.

The most happy women within their homes are those who have married sensible men. The latter suffer themselves to be governed with so much the more pleasure, as they are always masters of themselves.

However virtuous a woman may be, a compliment on her virtue is what gives her the least pleasure.

Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.

People that are scared of the dark have great imaginations and are my kind of people. Those who see nothing in the darkness are boring.

In America we have only the present tense. I am in danger. You are in danger.

You got your glory and you paid for it all, you take your pension in loneliness and alcohol.

Go on, try weasel, try squirrel; it tastes like chicken, it tastes just like chicken! If it tastes just like chicken, why don't you gimme some damn chicken?

I never would just open a door and walk through, I had to bust it down for the hell of it. I just naturally liked doing things the hard way.

Whatever principle of intelligence we attain in this life, it will rise with us in the resurrection.

Each year, several million people are looking for new clothes. The fashion they are looking at cannot be too expensive, but it has to be stylish.

I wish I was a little bit taller.

You are either alive and proud or you are dead, and when you are dead, you can't care anyway.