I love her passionately with a morbid intensity; madly as one can only love a woman who never responds to our love with anything but an eternally uniform, eternally calm, stony smile.

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.

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

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

If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.

With mercy and sympathy, no one will hate to love one another.

Tanner: I think that I might kiss you to keep your lips busy with something other than insulting me.Ella: If you think you can do it without getting lost.

Don't ever let them pull you down so low as to hate them. (also cited as: I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.)

There is no animal lazier than a cat.

Luck is a crossroad where preparation and opportunity meet

I wrote my earliest piece for The Sunday Times about being a young wife.

Having disciples is in the end like having children, only not with love but with self-love preeminent.

There are many causes I would die for. There is not a single cause I would kill for.

In my new life, no room for a lost boy.