There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.

Conversationis like the table of contents of a dull book.... All the greatest subjects of human thought are proudly displayedin it. Listen to it for three minutes, and you ask yourself which is more striking, the emphasis of the speaker or his shocking ignorance.

Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.

Love is a well from which we can drink only as much as we have put in, and the stars that shine from it are only our eyes looking in.

A woman of generous character will sacrifice her life a thousand times over for her lover, but will break with him for ever over a question of pride.

I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.

The first characteristic of Rossini's music is speed - a speed which removes from the soul all the sombre emotions that are so powerfully evoked within us by the slow strains in Mozart. I find also in Rossini a cool freshness, which, measure by measure, makes us smile with delight.