Writer

Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.

Never had he found himself so close to those terrible weapons of feminine artillery.

Our true passions are selfish.

Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.

A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.

I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.

All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few.

Semakin sering kita suka, semakin sedikit yang kita cintai.

Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.

If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.