There are no circumstances, however unfortunate, that clever people do not extract some advantage from.

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.

Lord I thank you for the grace of living life.

The only thing which can tell us about the novel is the novel.

Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed.

He's a tremendous guy. And what's more, he's virtually a genius in the field of management.

With a Socialist government, there will not be a national surplus whilst there continues to be inequality.

Limits the Romans' anxieties to two things - bread and games.

Outside of Paris, there is no hope for the cultured.

Poor Mexico. So far from God and so close to the United States.

What sort of an age is this where a man becomes one's enemy only when his back is turned?

I'm very aware that when my friends and I sit around over dinner these days, the conversation invariably turns to how crass the world has become. Tweeting? It's one of the silliest things ever.