How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?
Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.
As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.
People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it’s impossible to count them accurately.
Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.
I have no objection to anyone’s sex life as long as they don’t practice it in the street and frighten the horses.
Memory is the diary we all carry about with us.
I never change, except in my affections.
Each of us has heaven and hell in him...
A kiss may ruin a human life.
I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight For the greatest tragedy of them all Is never to feel the burning light.
It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world.
Oh, brothers! I don’t care for brothers. My elder brother won’t die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.
Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man’s face. It cannot be concealed.
They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.
A passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.
One should always be a little improbable.