Gifts are like fish-hooks; for who is not aware that the greedy char is deceived by the fly which he swallows?

The shameless Chloe placed on the tombs of her seven husbands the inscription, "The work of Chloe." How could she have expressed herself more plainly?

While you remain at home your hair is at the hairdresser's; you take out your teeth at night and sleep tucked away in a hundred cosmetics boxes - even your face does not sleep with you.

You ask what a nice girl will do? She won't give an inch, but she won't say no.

The face that cannot smile is never fair.

If I remember right, Aelia, you had four teeth; a cough displaced two, another two more. You can now cough without anxiety all the day long. A third cough can find nothing to do in your mouth.

Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings.