The union of a want and a sentiment.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

Only wise men look for new wisdom.

Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.

Boys don’t gossip.”“Pah! You don’t know us as well as you think.”This was a disturbing prospect.

Being a great company is the new brand.

The North Sea was supposed to run out in the 1980s. Then in the 1990s. And now production is still on-line.

People we love must be loved as they are. It is a want both of wisdom and courage on our part - a sort of drug - this wilful blindness, to blame them, because they fail our vision of them.

Those who failed to oppose me, who readily agreed with me and accepted all my views, were those who did me the most injury.

I love accessories. I'm a girl. I love shoes. I love handbags.

I like being in new places and seeing new sights.