Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
A happy marriage is a long conversation which always seems too short.
The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
Live as if you were eternal.
Advice is always a confession.
A gentleman is never in a hurry.
Style is the outcome of constraint.
Sincerity is glass, discretion is diamond.
Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us.
Business is a combination of war and sport.
If you create a character, you create a destiny.
Happiness flourishes where there is happiness...
Our minds have unbelievable power over our bodies.
Housekeeping in common is for women the acid test.
Medicine is a very old joke, but it still goes on.
Inspiration in matters of taste will not come twice.
He who wants to do everything will never do anything.
Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.
There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.
The longer the road to love, the keener is the pleasure...
Only passions can raise a man above the level of the animal.
Genius consists of equal parts of natural aptitude and hard work.
No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.
Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.
A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.
Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more humane world.
Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.
Novelty, the most potent of all attractions, is also the most perishable.
People are discontent; men are troubled; and the literature is excellent.
If, in New York, you arrive late for an appointment, say, "I took a taxi".
The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.
We console ourselves with several friends for not having found one real one.
It is better to teach a few things perfectly than many things indifferently...
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
We can talk frankly about our defects only to those who recognise our qualities.
When you become used to never being alone, you may consider yourself Americanised
Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.
You don't love a man for what he says, but love what he says because you love him.
A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body.
A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises.
We don't love a woman for what she says, we like what she says because we love her.
The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.
To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.
We appreciate frankness from those who like us. Frankness from others is called insolence.
To reason with poorly chosen words is like using a pair of scales with inaccurate weights.
Happiness is never there to stay [...] Happiness is merely a respite offered by inquietude.
Men and women are not born inconstant: they are made so by their early amorous experiences.
A great statesman, like a good housekeeper, knows that cleaning has to be done every morning.
We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.
Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.
