To have money is to be virtuous, honest, beautiful and witty And to be without is to be ugly and boring and stupid and useless.

To seek out in a world full of joy the one thing that is certain to give you pain, and hug it to your bosom with all your strength; that's the greatest human happiness.

Women have no sense of the abstract-a woman admiring the sky is a woman caressing the sky. In a woman's mind beauty is something she needs to touch.

A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal.

Who would prefer peace to the glory of hunger and thirst, of wading through mud, and dying in the service of one's country?

If two people who love each other let a single instant wedge itself between them, it grows-it becomes a month, a year, a century; it becomes to late.

I remember a time when a cabbage could sell itself by being a cabbage. Nowadays it’s no good being a cabbage – unless you have an agent and pay him a commission. Nothing is free anymore to sell itself or give itself away. These days, Countess, every cabbage has its pimp.