Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly. Despotism in a government is insanity; in woman, fantasy.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt.

True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure.

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

I will liken my judgment unto a ring: like as there is no slackness of the last, even so there is no swiftness of the first.

John Major put the 'er' back into Conservative, David Cameron's put the Con into Conservative - and Norman Lamont put the VAT into Conservative!

I'd like for y'all to meet the love of my life, her name's the game.

Sentimentalists are they who seek to enjoy without incurring the Immense Debtorship for a thing done.

Most people, you do a TV series, it ends three, four, five years later; it's a relic.

But for the first time in many years, I get to sleep in my own bed every night. I haven't done that, literally, in years. It seems like such a small thing, but it is so nice.

I'm not going to wear rose-colored glasses when it comes to Russia, or Mr. Putin.

Just because something isn't happening for you right now, doesn't mean it won't happen. God's timing is perfect.

Christianity is not a religion; it is the announcement of the end of religion.

You can't say 'because we decide we're different then we need a different set of laws.