"Ideals, my dear Golightly, are the root of every evil. When a man forgets his ideals he may hope for happiness, but n…"

"Men astonish themselves far more than they astonish their friends."

"A statesman's words, like butcher's meat, should be well weighed."

"We must know the measure of a man's desires before we can sound the depth of his regrets."

"People get to like a soul, but a satisfactory hat makes an impression at first sight."

"There is no misery quite so wearing as the misery of a false position. It seems to slay the body and the soul."

"... there was never a woman so ill-suited to public life as I am. I have had to whip myself, as it were, into society…"

"Reader. But where are the Unities? Author. In life there are no Unities, but three Incomprehensibles: Destiny, Man, a…"

"He longed to make a mark, or, to express it more vulgarly, cut a figure. Now, fortunately or unfortunately, the numbe…"

"Women may be whole oceans deeper than we are, but they are also a whole paradise better. She may have got us out of E…"