The devil take me, if I think anything but love to be the object of love.

Wine is a turncoat; first a friend and then an enemy.

Handsome is that handsome does.

Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.

There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.

The hounds all join in glorious cry, / The huntsman winds his horn: / And a-hunting we will go.

Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.

When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason

There is something beautiful in you seeking freedom.

He felt a happiness stirring deep inside him, shining a light into recesses of his soul that had long been devoured by darkness.

Trigger warnings and safe spaces are an infantilizing setback for feminism - and for women.

Just say anything without even caring if it is true. That is how riots start.

Long live the new flesh.

It is your reaction to adversity, not the adversity itself, that determines how your life’s story will develop.

Intemperance is a hydra with a hundred heads. She never stalks abroad unaccompanied with impurity, anger, and the most infamous profligacies.

When pain and suffering come upon us, we finally see not only that we are not in control of our lives but that we never were.

I seem to write an opera about every 20 years; if you live long enough you can write four operas. I finished my third in 1970.