Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness.

Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness.

Let us try to see things from their better side: You complain about seeing thorny rose bushes; Me, I rejoice and give thanks to the gods That thorns have roses.

I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked.

Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others.

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

Friendship between two women is always a plot against another one.