The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.

A woman's life revolves in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses.

The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen.

Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons.

It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.

The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord over all life and all arts.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.