Pretend long enough that you belong, and eventually even you will believe it." - Gallen

A quaint conceit, don't you think?

Inexperience can be overcome, ignorance can be enlightened, but prejudice will destroy you.

Mister Cameron - I have read the unexpurgated Ovid, the love poems of Sappho, the Decameron in the original, and a great many texts in Greek and Latin histories that were not though fit for proper gentlemen to read, much less proper ladies. I know in precise detail what Caligula did to, and with, his sisters, and I can quote it to you in Latin or in my own translation if you wish. I am interested in historical truth, and truth in history is often unpleasant and distasteful to those of fine sensibility. I frankly doubt that you will produce anything to shock me.

Certainly no one has ever died of an unrequited passion—it's usually the ones that are requited that get people in trouble.

It isn't wise to be rude to one's mother. She knows everything about your childhood that is potentially embarassing.

One day,' Orest said, looking at him comically, 'you will say something that is less than practical and sensible, something that is driven by no forethought and nothing but passion, and I will probably collapse with shock.