In England people actually try to be brilliant at breakfast. That is so dreadful of them! Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life.

Learn to differentiate between ignorance and stupidity.

I am very glad I have travelled. Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.

A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.