One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace.

It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for.

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

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.

Everyone, when there's war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood.

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.