The same word passed through three minds, simultaneously, philosophical, fatalistic, the eternal refuge of the Italian: Pazienza..

Heaven preserve me from littleness and pleasantness and smoothness. Give me great glaring vices, and great glaring virtues, but preserve me from the ….

I don't like museums; there's nothing to buy..

Be wicked, be brave, be drunk, be reckless, be dissolute, be despotic, be a suffragette, be anything you like, but for pity's sake be it to the top o….

You are my lover and I am your mistress and kingdoms and empires and governments have tottered and succumbed before now to that mighty combination..

Do you think that love has to be requited to be genuine? On the contrary, it thrives on indifference..