The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

You don't make art out of good intentions.

Bond mistrusted anyone who tied his tie with a Windsor knot. It showed too much vanity.

Long books$$$ when read$$$ are usually overpraised$$$ because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.

Doubt is an illness that comes from knowledge and leads to madness.

Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair$$$ and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

You intend to kiss me and yet you are going to all this damn trouble about it.

The phenomenon of war is its hermaphroditism: the principles of victory and of defeat inhabit the same body and the necessary opponent$$$ enemy$$$ is merely the bed they self-exhaust each other on.

Menfolks listens to somebody because of what he says. Women don't. They don't care what he said. They listens because of what he is.

I can stand on my own feet; I don't need any man's mahogany desk to prop me up.