Don’t ever wear artistic jewelry; it wrecks a woman’s reputation.
—Colette, 1944
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An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
—James Russell Lowell, c. 1865The mind of man is capable of anything.
—Guy de Maupassant, 1884The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.
—Dean Acheson, 1970More pernicious nonsense was never devised by man than treaties of commerce.
—Benjamin Disraeli, 1880What is the city but the people?
—William Shakespeare, 1608The doctor occupies a seat in the front row of the stalls of the human drama, and is constantly watching and even intervening in the tragedies, comedies, and tragicomedies which form the raw material of the literary art.
—W. Russell Brain, 1952The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.
—Anaïs Nin, 1935Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There’s no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.
—Fanny Burney, 1782Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren’t so many of them left.
—Louis-Ferdinand Céline, 1960When nature is overriden, she takes her revenge.
—Marya Mannes, 1958The history of the land has been written very largely in water.
—John Hodgdon Bradley Jr., 1935To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.
—Simone de Beauvoir, 1949