“unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.”

That must be fine, for I don’t understand a word.

Grammar, which knows how to control even kings.

I prefer a pleasant vice to an annoying virtue.

I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores.

The duty of comedy is to correct men by amusing them.

Cover that bosom that I must not see: souls are wounded by such things.

Isn’t the greatest rule of all the rules simply to please?

Without dance, a man can do nothing.

The ancients, sir, are the ancients, and we are the people of today.

Perfect reason avoids all extremes.

What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.

I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn’t speak a single word that doesn’t come straight from his heart.

There’s nothing people can’t contrive to praise or condemn and find justification for doing so, according to their age and their inclinations.

You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.

Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it.

I live on good soup, not on fine words.

No regrets. There is no time for that. Regret is boring.

I know definitive points in my life and in relationships because of my songs. I write my music so that I’ll never be bored of it.

My desire to experiment comes from my attention-deficit approach to cosmetics. I just get really bored, really easily.

We’re all going to change. Otherwise, it’s boring.

When I have to go to Cannes, that is boring to me.

We’re all going to change. Otherwise, it’s boring. Who wants to stay the damn same all their life?

I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.

I was bored one day, so my dad took me to this acting school. I liked it more than having fun – I liked it for an actual job.