Quotes by Novelist

"Dress is the great business of all women, and the fixed idea of some."

"We can invent only with memory."

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

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

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

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

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

"Let us try to see things from their better side: You complain about seeing thorny rose bushes; Me, I rejoice and give thanks to the gods That thorns have roses."

"All people have three characters, that which they exhibit, that which they have, and that which they think they have."

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