A real apple is more beautiful than a painted one, and a live woman is more beautiful than a Venus of stone.

You modern men, you children of reason, cannot begin to appreciate love as pure bliss and divine serenity.

You know how to paint pleasure, cruelty, arrogance in glowing colors.

You have corrupted my imagination and inflamed my blood.

Never feel safe with the woman you love, for a woman's nature conceals more dangers than you think.

Be then my slave, and know what it means to be delivered into the hands of a woman.

Whoever allows himself to be whipped, deserves to be whipped.

The person who doesn't know how to subjugate will all too quickly feel the other's foot on the nape of his neck.

Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason.

Desire followed the glance, pleasure followed desire

Now her eyes meet mine like green lightning-they are green, these eyes of hers, whose power is so indescribable-green, but as are precious stones, or deep unfathomable mountain lakes.

People are made in such a way that if something inexplicable happens to them, they write it off to an overheated imagination.

To truly understand a man, you must look at his enemies.

MY Life is my masterpiece. My work is my worship.

There was never talent, only hard work.

All I did was sit on the riverbank handing out river water. After I'm gone, I trust you will notice the river.

There is no such thing as a natural sentence but there is such a thing as a natural paragraph and it must be found.

As a rule, I think they are quite impossible. Geniuses talk so much, don't they? Such a bad habit! And they are always thinking about themselves, when I want them to be thinking about me.

I've heard that sometimes farmers out in the field ... hear voices.

Everything I do, I feel is genius. Whether it is or it isn't.

There are generations who watch Doctor Who together.