"The more things change, the more they..." - Quote by Alphonse Karr

“A woman who writes commits two sins; she increases the number of books, and decreases the number of women.”

“Women's glances express what they dare not speak.”

“Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has.”

“I haven't seen a tractor working all day. The country has gone sane and got back to horses. Farmers all look worse, but they feel better.”

“He felt his smile slide away, melt, fold over and down on itself like a tallow skin, like the stuff of a fantastic candle burning too long and now collapsing and now blown out.”

“As in a theatre, the eyes of men, after a well-graced actor leaves the stage, are idly bent on him that enters next.”

“A friend, therefore, is a sort of paradox in nature. I who alone am, I who see nothing in nature whose existence I can affirm with equal evidence to my own, behold now the semblance of my being, in all its height, variety, and curiosity, reiterated in a foreign form; so that a friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.”

“Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching.”

“I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.”