“Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.”

Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.

Can you find a man who loves the occupation that provides him with a livelihood? Professions are like marriages; we end by feeling only their inconveniences.

How can we explain the perpetuity of envy–a vice which yields no return?

How sternly we reproach virtue for its failings, how indulgent we are to the better qualities of vice!

The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.

People exaggerate both happiness and unhappiness; we are never so fortunate nor so unfortunate as people say we are.

When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness.

Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual.

As a rule, only the poor are generous.

Everybody all over the world takes a wife’s estimate into account in forming an opinion of a man.

Where poverty ceases, avarice begins.

People who are in love suspect nothing or everything.

A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.

Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.

A jealous husband doesnt doubt his wife, but himself.

If you catch him, just give me four seconds with Saddam Hussein.

He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap.

I saw you walking with your other man today. If I catch you one more time, I’m gonna blow you both away.

A child’s spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.

Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.

I want to catch snowflakes on your tongue.

The day you catch an idea you fall in love with, even a small one, is a beautiful day.

It is only too easy to catch people’s attention by doing something worse than anyone else has dared to do it before.