When one woman strikes at the heart of another, she seldom misses, and the wound is invariably fatal.

Don't you remember that love, like medicine, is only the art of encouraging nature?

Revenge is a dish that is best served cold.

I willingly allow that money does not guarantee happiness; but it must also be allowed that it makes happiness a great deal easier to achieve.

Marquise de Merteuil: I've distilled every thing to one single principle: win or die.

Truth to tell, the longer I live, the more I'm tempted to think that the only moderately worthwhile people in the world are you and I.

It has become necessary for me to have this woman, so as to save myself from the ridicule of being in love with her: for to what lengths will a man not be driven by thwarted desire?