To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness, indeed.

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.

Never give in - never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.

If everybody went to balls and did less drugs, itd be a fun world, wouldnt it?

Every work experience is a positive work experience, and if you're looking at it any other way I can't help you.

Portofino in the '60s was magic. Women in bright silk, each with a gardenia in their hand. The bottle started then, in my mind.

There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make.

It's no good being exclusive if nobody wants in.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

Greatness has entered the ring! Thank you very much you may bow at will!

Wearing a mask wears you out. Faking it is fatiguing. The most exhausting activity is pretending to be what you know you aren't.

...for my master, bad as I have thought him, is not half so bad as this woman.-To be sure she must be an atheist!