There are women who never had an intrigue; but there are scarce any who never had but one.

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.

Sophie, honey, stop looking at me like that, ” Garrett said gruffly. “You’ll have me convinced I’m going to die.”“You’re not?

We get to the right destination by God’s guidance.

My dad believes in God, I think. I'm not sure if my mom does. I don't.

We're the victims of a disease called social prejudice, my child. These dear ladies of the law and order league are scouring out the dregs of the town. C'mon be a glorified wreck like me.

Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf

.. every step of the upward way is strewn with wreckage of body, mind, and morals.

A tree that cannot bend will crack in the wind. Thus by nature's own decree, the soft and gentle are triumphant.

True knowledge consists in knowing things, not words.

Living in New York is like being at some terrible late-night party. You're tired, you've had a headache since you arrived, but you can't leave because then you'd miss the party.

My idea of gambling was walking through Central Park, whistling show tunes.