there is evil everywhere under the sun.

Everybody always knows something," said Adam, "even if it's something they don't know they know.

Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master.

Jealousy, you know, is usually not an affair of causes. It is much more-how shall I say?-fundamental than that. Based on the knowledge that one's love is not returned. And so one goes on waiting, watching, expecting...that the loved one will turn to someone else.

There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger.

I believe, Messieurs, in loyalty---to one's friends and one's family and one's caste.

He laughs best who laughs at the end.