To lie about a far country is easy

You must render: never report.

It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.

Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.

Life is a slope. As long as you're going up you're always looking towards the top and you feel happy, but when you reach it, suddenly you can see the road going downhill and death at the end of it all. It's slow going up and quick going down.

Killing is decreed by law but nature loves eternal youth. Whatever she does, however unconscious and unfeeling the act, she seems to cry out: 'Quick! Quick! Quick!' And the more she destroys, the more she is renewed.

The English have only three sauces - a white one, a brown one and a yellow one, and none of them have any flavor whatever.