Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him.

The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life.

Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

The curves of your lips rewrite history.