Though your vulgarian does not readily admit that feelings can change overnight, certainly two lovers often part far more abruptly than they came together.

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.

Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world.

To create a just world for women, we must firstly teach men to be just!

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrong.

Still, I never really mind bad service in a restaurant. It makes me feel better about not leaving a tip.

The first time I went to Wales I thought I'd landed in a land of hobbits. Everybody was really small and the houses were small and the writing was backwards.

The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.

I think men spend so much time passing for being men.

Players' attention spans get less and less as they progress.

Friendship is such an elastic word. There never was an age when it stood for so many things in private, and was yet so absolutely non-existent in fact.

The balls of sight are so formed, that one man's eyes are spectacles to another, to read his heart with.