We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.

The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in.

Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.

Fate succumbs many a species: one alone jeopardises itself.

Men will pay large sums to whores for telling them they are not bores.

Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before.

Those to whom evil is doneDo evil in return.