The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
—Yves Saint Laurent, 1978
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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.
—Francis Bacon, 1625How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man’s self to himself! He is his own exclusive object.
—Charles Lamb, 1833Mammon, n. The god of the world’s leading religion. His chief temple is in the holy city of New York.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1911I shall embrace my rival—until I suffocate him.
—Jean Racine, 1669Life is no way to treat an animal.
—Kurt Vonnegut, 2005O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1599People living deeply have no fear of death.
—Anaïs Nin, 1935The country only has charms for those not obliged to stay there.
—Édouard Manet, c. 1860Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
—W.H. Auden, 1957I always think of nature as a great spectacle, somewhat resembling the opera.
—Bernard de Fontenelle, 1686Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame—to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell!
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1843Most authors seek fame, but I seek for justice—a holier impulse than ever entered into the ambitious struggles of the votaries of that fickle, flirting goddess.
—Davy Crockett, 1834