Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.

Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.

all pleasures should be taken in great leisure and are worth going into in detail; love is not like eating a quick lunch with one's hat on.

Tira: Whatever you're thinkin' you're wrong. I only like him like a brother. You ain't got nothin' to worry about. . . . Say listen you. A better dame than you once called me a liar and they had to sew her up in twelve different places. You're lucky I'm a little more refined than I used to be. And if you was as much a lady as I am, you'd get out of here before I get real sore. Alicia: You haven't a streak of decency in you. Tira: I don't show my good points to strangers. I'll trouble you to scram.

Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for.

Positive thoughts generate positive feelings and attract positive life experiences. You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

Women are like roads. The more curves they have, the more dangerous they are.