A wife loves out of duty, and duty leads to constraint, and constraint kills desire.

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made.

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

There are truths which can kill a nation.

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.

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.

A man's name, title, and rank are artificial and impermanent; they do nothing to reveal what he really is, even to himself.