To win a woman in the first place you must please her, then undress her, and then somehow get her clothes back on her, finally, so that she will let you leave her, you've got to antagonise her.

As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.

A woman is a creature who has discovered her own nature.

In times of death and famine, reason is on the side of the priests-who have their own kind of logic which cries for miracles and, on occasion, invents them.

There is nothing so wrong in this world that a sensible woman can't set it right in the course of an afternoon.

There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people.

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