Quotes by Critic

"Women's glances express what they dare not speak."

"If we are to abolish the death penalty, I should like to see the first step taken by our friends the murderers."

"The more things change, the more they stay the same."

"Botany is the art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin."

"The more the change, the more it is the same thing."

"Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end."

"We can invent only with memory."

"Avoid all haste; calmness is an essential ingredient of politeness."

"If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious."

"A widow is like a frigate of which the first captain has been shipwrecked."

"Almost every one flatters himself that he and his are exceptionable."

"We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses."

"Friendship between two women is always a plot against another one."

"If women only knew the extent of their power!"

"If there is a fruit that can be eaten raw, it is beauty."

"Though we have two eyes, we are supplied with but one tongue. Draw your own moral."

"Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty."

"Display is like shallow water, where you can see the muddy bottom."

"Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others."

"One expresses well only the love he does not feel."

"I am thankful that thorns have roses."

"I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked."

"Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses."

"Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided."