How foolish it would be if women did not obey men. The world would be all confusion!

Such lovely warmth of thought and delicacy of colour are beyond all praise, and equally beyond all thanks!

Let me be mad, then, by all means! mad with the madness of Absinthe, the wildest, most luxurious madness in the world! Vive la folie! Vive l'amour! Vive l'animalisme! Vive le Diable!

You should always be well and bright, for so you do your best work; and you have so much beautiful work to do. The world needs it, and you must give it!

Nothing gives small minds a better handle for hatred than superiority.

Flowers are like visible messages from God.

No one is contented in this world, I believe. There is always something left to desire, and the last thing longed for always seems the most necessary to happiness.

Wealth acts merely as a kind of mirror to show you human nature at its worst.

There is no wealth but love.

The Church is a system, - but whether it is as much founded on the teaching of our Lord, who was divine, as on the teaching of St. Paul, who was not divine, is a question to me of much perplexity.

Great Poets discover themselves. Little Poets have to be 'discovered' by somebody else.

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.

Her words were like tinfoil

Yes, we do mimic our parents in a lot of ways.

One king, one law, one faith.

God freely forgives us on account of Christnot on account of our works, contrition, confession, or satisfactions.

Good actresses can often accomplish miracles, and it is possible to be someone you've never been or will be. But in a sitcom, there's no time.

Sanctions against polluters are feeble and out of date, and are rarely invoked

I'm just chatty. But I do express my opinion.

The myth of this world is that the way to transformation is through power, but God choose to enter the world in a weak manner, gentle and tender through the heartbeat of a child.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared