What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul.
You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.
When a woman is speaking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.
What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved… loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.
Taste is the common sense of genius.
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.
Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.