We do not despise all those who have vices, but we do despise those that have no virtue.

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.

To make this world a whole lot brighter, when I grow up I'll be a writer.

It is a though he is spreading a veil of protectiveness over me, and I am greedy for it.

Housework is what woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.

On life's vast ocean diversely we sail, Reason the card, but passion is the gale; Nor God alone in the still calm we find, He mounts the storm, and walks upon the wind.

Advertising is the fuel of enterprise.

Throughout my career I've always felt like certain things come to me at the right time.

We all get weary sometimes, and we tend to think that life is what makes us weary.

Why should I need an artist to explain a work of art to me? Why should it not speak out to me itself?

Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved; and to be steady on all the battlefield besides, is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point.

I don't try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That's nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them.