Marquise de Merteuil: I've distilled every thing to one single principle: win or die.

Either you have a rival or you don't. If you have one, you must please in order to be preferred to him, and if you don't you must still please-in order to avoid having one.

Cast between the extremes of happiness and misfortune, uncertainty is a cruel torment.

I willingly allow that money does not guarantee happiness; but it must also be allowed that it makes happiness a great deal easier to achieve.

A man enjoys the happiness he feels, a woman the happiness she gives.

La vengeance est un plat qui se mange froid

Revenge is a dish that is best served cold.

Humanity is not perfect in any fashion; no more in the case of evil than in that of good. The criminal has his virtues, just as the honest man has his weaknesses.

All publicity is good publicity.

I assure you that the world is not so amusing as we imagined.

I see you are already as timid as a slave: you might as well be in love.

That was the reasoning behind learning to play bass, and then after that it was more like it was neat to play songs together - for me to play bass and for him to play guitar.

I follow politics, but I don't like to discuss it.

Art exists only to communicate a spiritual message

If you sound great in the practice room, you're practicing the wrong thing. Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

A lot of times I feel I probably would have ended up in a mental hospital if it weren't for the structure that 'Bones' gave me.

People are still people no matter how you cut it.

If the old dog hadn't got distracted by the fire plug, he would have caught the rabbit.

Homemade sweaters are always itchy.

Fairly large print is a real antidote to stiff reading.

The old horse is coming back in a high lope. Thousands of people are riding a horse today that five years ago couldn't sit in a Ford with all the doors locked.