Beware the horns of a bull, the heels of the horse, and the smile of an Englishman.

White wine is like electricity. Red wine looks and tastes like a liquified beefsteak.

Very gratefully, with grateful appreciation, with sincere appreciative gratitude, in appreciatively grateful sincerity of regret, he declined.

Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.

The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.

God made food; the devil the cooks.

I did not know whether I would ever speak to her or not or, if I spoke to her, how I could tell her of my confused adoration. But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.