History, that excitable and unreliable old lady.

breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.

Champagne... the wine of kings, the king of wines

Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.

We breathe love as we breathe air; we hold it in ourselves as we hold our thoughts. Nothing more exists for us.

The simplest of women are wonderful liars who can extricate themselves from the most difficult dilemmas with a skill bordering on genius.

To lie about a far country is easy