All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.

Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?

If we have come to think that the nursery and the kitchen are the natural sphere of a woman, we have done so exactly as English children come to think that a cage is the natural sphere of a parrot: because they have never seen one anywhere else.

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

After studying the Hungarian language for years, I can confidently conclude that had Hungarian been my mother tongue, it would have been more precious. Simply because through this extraordinary, ancient and powerful language it is possible to precisely describe the tiniest differences and the most secretive tremors of emotions.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.