“Every woman is a rebel.”

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

No good deed goes unpunished.

Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.

I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.

Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world’s original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.

If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.

As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

Every organization should tolerate rebels who tell the emperor he has no clothes.

General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.

It often requires more courage to suffer in silence than to rebel, more courage not to strike back than to retaliate, more courage to be silent than to speak.

A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.

There is nothing in this world that makes me want to be a rebel more than being told to be obedient.

I don’t push buttons to push buttons. Throwing the rebel card out there is really cheap.