I still insist that American performers are the best performers in the world.
The good or the bad fortune of men depends not less upon their own dispositions than upon fortune.
Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.
A man often imagines that he acts, when he is acted upon.
If we took as much pains to be what we ought, as we do to deceive others by disguising what we are; we might appear as we are, without being at the trouble of any disguise.
To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.
Jealousy is in some measure just and reasonable, since it merely aims at keeping something that belongs to us or we think belongsto us, whereas envy is a frenzy that cannot bear anything that belongs to others.
The gist of the Twist is chiefly in the hips
Sex is still the leading cause of pregnancy.
You can leave in a huff. Or you can leave in a minute and a huff.
Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.