 As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum. |
| The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. |
| Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half? |
| Only the mediocre are always at their best. |
| There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people. |
| A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe; a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible. |
| We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth. |
| Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile. |
| I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am. |
| There are no elements so diverse that they cannot be joined in the heart of a man. |
| Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom. |
| When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome. |
| I'm not afraid of death. It's the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life. |
| A man has only one way of being immortal on earth: he has to forget he is a mortal. |
| Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands. |
| There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth. |
| One of the privileges of the great is to witness catastrophes from a terrace. |
| The secret of success is sincerity. |
| I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management. |
| It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for. |
