NAPOLEON: What shall we do with this soldier, Giuseppe? Everything he says is wrong. GIUSEPPE: Make him a general, Excellency, and then everything he says will be right.

All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies.

Youth, what a pity to waste it on the young.

When a bishop at the first shot abandons the worship of Christ and rallies his flock round the altar of Mars, he may be acting patriotically... but that does not justify him in pretending...that Christ is, in effect, Mars.

After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.

A tranquil woman can go on sewing longer than an angry man can go on fuming.