The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.
Books and marriage go ill together.
There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.
If Claret is the king of natural wines, Burgundy is the queen.
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you!