Our envy always outlives the felicity of its object.

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.

What you feel is making sense could really be dramatized nonsense. So think again.

The human face is, after all, nothing more nor less than a mask.

Revolt is the mirror in which greed is forced to see itself.

I fell in love, not with anything or anybody in particular but with everything.

The faster the word sticks to the thought, the more beautiful is the effect.

Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.

The public hungers to see talented young people kill themselves.

A wicked person, swayed by evil motives and evil actions, is described as a demon.

The first time with artistic endeavors is, if it's working, it was your idea, and if it's not, it's somebody else's idea.

Shut not your doors to me proud libraries.