Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.
If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.
Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
Kitty: I thought your ladyship was ill. I wanted to help you. Lady deWinter: I ill? Do you take me for a weak woman? When I am insulted I do not feel ill – I avenge myself. Do you hear?
There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
I’m sure you’re very nice, but you’d be even nicer if you went away.
Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.
Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.
For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.
It is the way of weakened minds to see everything through a black cloud. The soul forms its own horizons; your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of the future appears stormy and unpromising.
It is the infirmity of our nature always to believe ourselves much more unhappy than those who groan by our sides!
Within six months, if I am not dead, I shall have seen you again, madam – even if I have to overturn the world.
You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.
Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy.
Happiness is egotistical.
God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.
Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.
Capricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste. Posterity will find a difficulty in understanding this character, which history explains only by facts and never by reason.
I am a Count, Not a Saint.
You who weep for pleasures fled, While dragging on a life of care, All your woes will melt in air, If to god your tears are shed, You who Weap!