"It is better to be a victim than an executioner."

"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."

"I have no taste in women, and I always fall in love with the ugliest ones."

"People are so like their first mother Eve: what they are given doesn't take their fancy. The serpent is forever enticing them to come to him, to the tree of mystery. They must have the forbidden fruit…"

"I am fat and lazy, and I love nothing so much as to lie on my sofa, eat gingerbread, and read French novels."