Writer

Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.

Tidak ada yang lebih mengerikan daripada mode usang.

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.

It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.

Seorang wanita berusia empat puluh lima tahun hanya memperoleh kepentingan melalui anak-anaknya atau kekasihnya.

To be loved at first sight, a man should have at the same time something to respect and something to pity in his face.

The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.

The Russians imitate French ways, but always at a distance of fifty years.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

Only great minds can afford a simple style.

The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.

Seorang wanita berusia empat puluh lima tahun hanya memperoleh kepentingan melalui anak-anaknya atau kekasihnya.

The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.

Cinta selalu menjadi bisnis terbesar bagi saya, atau lebih tepatnya satu-satunya.

Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.