"When women have passed thirty, the first thing they forget is their age; when they have attained forty, they have entirely lost the remembrance of it."

"A woman is more influenced by what she divines than by what she is told."

"A woman is never displeased if we please several other women, provided she is preferred: it is so many more triumphs for her."

"When the intoxication of love has passed, we laugh at the perfections it had discovered."

"The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience."

"A woman should never accept a lover without the consent of her heart, nor a husband without the consent of her judgment."

"That which is striking and beautiful is not always good; but that which is good is always beautiful."

"Beauty without grace is a hook without a bait."

"Le beau billet qu'a La Châtre!"

"Love never dies of starvation, but often of indigestion."

"The desire to please is born in woman before the desire to love."

"Que l'on était bien à plaindre quand on avait besoin du secours de la religion pour se conduire , et que c'était la marque d'un esprit bien borné, ou d'un cœur bien corrompu."

"Glances are the first billets-doux of love."

"Le communisme, c'est une des seules maladies graves qu'on n'a pas expérimenté d'abord sur des animaux."

"Tu sais ce que c'est qu'un sandwich polonais ? c'est deux ticket de pain avec un ticket de jambon au milieu."

"Les psychiatres sont très efficaces. Avant, je pissais au lit et j'avais honte. J'ai été voir un psychiatre et ça va mieux. Maintenant, je pisse au lit mais je suis fier."

"Si la Gestapo avait les moyens de vous faire parler, les politiciens d’aujourd’hui ont les moyens de vous faire taire."

"Le capitalisme, c'est l'exploitation de l'homme par l'homme. Le communisme, c'est le contraire !"

"Great physicists fight great battles."

"One of the capital's most influential public artists."

"I want to live in a city where the people who make the rules have to live by them."

"I want to live in a city where dissent is welcomed as much as it's disliked."

"I want to live in a city where immigration is seen as a new source of strength."

"I want to live in a city where half the people in charge are women."

"The one irreducible truth about humanity is diversity."

"If obedience invariably leads to cruelty, disobedience is our moral duty."

"All men are dangerous."

"Security is no replacement for liberty."

"Yes he’s a provocateur if you like, but the underlying message is very rarely ‘life’s rubbish and you’re all a bunch of sharks’. And I think that is a reflection of Martin’s belief in the better side of people."

"He’s seeking to move beyond simple messages to something which provokes in the viewer a new sense of themselves and their place in the world."

"Artists have different materials they work with, and for Martin it’s words."

"Many will support Firrell’s aims… the combined effect of words, visuals and soundtrack is powerful… Firrell, an artist based in the city, is renowned for text pieces like this."

"What a good thing (Firrell) is for this world of ours."

"Firrell has reinvented poetry for the 21st Century."

"It is so deep, it’s so impressive, it goes straight to your heart."

"With his geisha-white complexion and vivid blue eyes, he is a touch of exotica even in the colourful world of Soho."

"I like words on public buildings and Firrell is a master of gauging their power."

"Martin Firrell is my favourite public artist."

"How rare that an artist should make something which forces us to think, and encourages us to stop and think, to question why we behave the way we do."

"How about we have been dead and what we must do after we die? Why we go to the churches when we are living because I think the divines and Christs are dead in the churches and provide the services, cares and merrys on our lived people. And we received the peaceful mind from them and held a better life than before."

"Surrounded by army, you think you're going to die. You can't shower because they'll find you nude."

"Imagination has not saved us."