It is television's primary damage that it provides ten million children with the same fantasy, ready-made and on a platter.

You cannot throw words like heroism and sacrifice and nobility and honor away without abandoning the qualities they express.

The art of flirtation is dying. A man and woman are either in love these days or just friends. In the realm of love, reticence and sophistication should go hand in hand, for one of the joys of life is discovery. Nowadays, instead of progressing from vous to tu, from Mister to Jim, it's 'darling' and 'come to my place' in the first hour.

Flirtation is merely an expression of considered desire coupled with an admission of its impracticability.

If American men are obsessed with money, American women are obsessed with weight. The men talk of gain, the women talk of loss, and I do not know which talk is the more boring.

All great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

In the race for money some men may come first, but man comes last.