For like as herbs and trees bringen forth fruit and flourish in May, in likewise every lusty heart that is in any manner a lover, ...springeth and flourisheth in lusty deeds.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Queen Guenever, for whom I make here a little mention, that while she lived she was a true lover, and therefore she had a good end....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be s...oon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Women who are devoted to causes, such as overpopulation and the underprivileged [sic], are much less interested in fashion than, l...et's say, those who lunch at La Grenouille and Le Cirque.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Napoleon never wished to be justified. He killed his enemy according to Corsican traditions [le droit corse] and if he sometimes r...egretted his mistake, he never understood that it had been a crime.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »