Were we not proud ourselves, we should not complain of the pride of others.

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.

L'honneste est stable et permanent.

It always felt as though there were a shaken beehive living in my chest. I could never rest.

She was smooth and beautiful under his rough, callused hands-an amorous balm to soothe the ugliness of war.

They said, Now we are capitalists! but all Ulrich could see was criminality to a principle.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

I love eye shadows that are shimmery and playing with colors. There's just more you can do with your eyes.

Procrastination isn't the problem. It's the solution. It's the universe's way of saying stop, slow down, you move too fast.

Existence is violent, I exist, therefore I'm violent. . . in that way.

Hunger makes a thief of any man.

Our wounds are our sources of growth.