The grace of novelty and the length of habit, though so very opposite to one another, yet agree in this, that they both alike keepus from discovering the faults of our friends.

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.

For all its ridiculous imperfections, life is pretty damn perfect sometimes.

Moral claims aren't, as a class, truth-value apt or not.

The LORD detests lying lips, but he delights in men who are truthful. PROVERBS 12:22

I must quit marrying men who feel inferior to me. Somewhere there must be a man who could be my husband and not feel inferior.

We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.

I fear nothing and I regret less.

I don't believe in censorship in any form.

The more I go onstage, the more quiet I am before, because I intend to go onstage and slaughter.

When the rider demands the piaffe, he has to halt the horse a few strides before the latter wants to stop of his own accord.

Also, I think women really come into their own in their 30s.