We often experience more regret over the part we have left, than pleasure over the part we have preferred..

I'm not a queen of anything, you know..

Exhort all your household often that all those who serve you shall know to serve God and you, faithfully and painstakingly, and for the will of God t….

In the service of Caesar, everything is legitimate..

I never said to myself, "I'm going to be the greatest." I just wanted to do my own thing..

It's the pleasure of picking up the brush and seeing what happens..

Pleasure and pain, though directly opposite are contrived to be constant companions..

The less it is possible that something can be, the more it must be..

We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give..

Napoleon is dead - but Beethoven lives..

It was formerly a terrifying view to me that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature has provided pleasures for every state..

With God, it's possible to be content wherever we are, with whatever we have..

Pleasure, that immortal essence, the beauteous bead sparkling in the cup, effervesces soon and subsides..

You're only as good as you are now - not as good as you were before..

I'm happy to be where I am and how everything has turned out..

I do like to be surprised..

The cuisine, it is all about putting generosity before rigour and pleasure before lucidity..

I am conversational - I just like to engage and talk about things..

I'm not just anybody.' 'No, indeed. Nobody is..

I'd rather be a comma than a full stop..

Chanel liberated women: Saint Laurent gave them power..