“When intimacy followed love in Italy there were no longer any vain pretensions between two lovers.”

Spring appears and we are once more children.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.

The difference breeds hatred.

There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.

What is really beautiful must always be true.

Life is very short, and it ought not to be spent crawling at the feet of miserable scoundrels.

I am mad, I am going under, I must follow the advice of a friend, and pay no heed to myself.

I think being condemned to death is the only real distinction,” said Mathilde. “It is the only thing which cannot be bought.

Beauty is nothing other than the promise of happiness.

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.

It is better to have a prosaic husband and to take a romantic lover.

The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United States of America.

The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.

The French are the wittiest, the most charming, and up to the present, at all events, the least musical race on Earth.

A novel is a mirror carried along a main road.

You can achieve success and fame by following your dreams.

In practical life we are compelled to follow what is most probable ; in speculative thought we are compelled to follow truth.

Follow the rules or follow the fools.

When in doubt, we follow our hearts. Words can be false, images and sounds can be manipulated. But this – He tapped his chest, over his heart. ‘This is always true.

The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.

One of the problems when you become successful is that jealousy and envy inevitably follow.

The wisest men follow their own direction.

Don’t be different just for different’s sake. If you see it differently, function that way. Follow your own muse, always.