If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves.

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.

If you assume that it is there, you will generally not be far off the truth.

You are. Before you are whatever you are labeled.

The chances of finding out what’s really going on in the universe are so remote, the only thing to do is hang the sense of it and keep yourself occupied.

I'm not loyal enough to the Republic to stamp that loyalty right on my face. Leave that to June.

An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one.

A girl in want of a Leopard still has feet.

I'm a huge, huge believer in love. Huge!

I think the world's just gone completely mad, with everyone wearing the same things, even celebrities.

I felt it would to add a great deal to my legend for eccentricity.

I don't think that coming from a privileged background makes you this monster who doesn't feel things.