Utterance does not in principle mean a weakening of conviction--that would not be anything to be deplored--but a weakness of conviction.
Ah! the spendthrift, love: it gives all and everything with the first sigh!
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds; and these invaluable communications are within the reach of all.
Sensibility cannot be acquired; people are born thus, or they have it not.
Homeliness is the best guard of a young girl's virtue.
If you want to succeed in the world it is necessary, when entering a salon, that your vanity should bow to that of others.
In our lonely hours we awake those sleeping images with which our memories are stored, and vitalize them again.
All great song, from the first day when human lips contrived syllables, has been sincere song.
Carmen prayed hard. She prayed while standing near the priest in hopes it would give her request extra credibility. What she prayed for was nothing. She prayed that God would look on them and see the beauty of their existence and leave them alone.
You can't just imitate and keep coming up with ideas. You have to be tapping into something that's pure and unconscious in yourself or you'll have no career.
I don't think I ever believed in love, not really. Just though it was something James Bond made up, a long time ago, to get laid.