The same principle that forbids me to lie does not allow me to tell the truth.

After all, a beautiful woman without a mind of her own leaves her lover with no resource after he had physically enjoyed her charms.

one who makes no mistakes makes nothing

Real love is the love that sometimes arises after sensual pleasure: if it does, it is immortal; the other kind inevitably goes stale, for it lies in mere fantasy.

Be the flame, not the moth.

The sweetest pleasures are those which are hardest to be won.

By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of troubles now past, and which I no longer feel.

To Kiss : An attempt to absorb the essence of the other person.

Give me a man who is man enough to give himself just to the woman who is worth him. If that woman were me,I would love him alone and forever

Love is three quarters curiosity.

Nobody can deprive me of the fact that I had a good time.

The spark of divinity is sacred spirit with divine soul.

Nothing surprises me. After Donald Trump, nothing matters, does it?

I like to believe that rather than destroy icons, I make new ones.

I've always thought of the book as a visual art form, and it should represent a single artistic idea, which it does if you write your own material.

One day they will invent a time machine and, like the internet, it will be used primarily for boning.

Radio as we know it is pretty much changing completely.

I’ve dropped out of their hearts like a little sparrow fallen from its nest. So gather me up, dear, fold me to your heart – and you’ll see how nice I can be.

Not that I had any special reason for hating school. Strange as it may seem to my readers, I was not unpopular there. I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

In the battle of existence, Talent is the punch; Tact is the clever footwork.

If you mean to profit, learn to please.