All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood.

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.

He deserves better than this. But "deserves" doesn't have a lot to do with falling in love.

Eleanor let his words hit her full on.

The old order changeth yielding place to new.

Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.

I want the real deal whatever that means and whatever it takes to get there so I've been exploring.

The lichen on the rocks is a rude and simple shield which beginning and imperfect Nature suspended there. Still hangs her wrinkledtrophy.

Oh, Finn isn’t an assassin,” I cut in. “He’s much, much worse. He’s a banker.

The key issue is the shift of the centre of gravity from the West to the East, the rise of China and India.

I am unusual for a Frenchman - I have absolutely nothing against the United States.

I'm used to being under pressure... luckily I perform well under pressure.