"Exalted by a sentiment of which she was proud, and that overcame all her arrogance, she was reluctant to let a moment of her life go by without occupying it with some remarkable deed."

"C'est la violente impression du laid sur une me faite pour aimer ce qui est beau."

"...one of the traits of genius is not to drag its thought through the rut worn by vulgar minds."

"Am trăit ndeajuns ca să văd că deosebirea dă naştere la ură."

"Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will"

"If you think of paying court to those in power, your eternal ruin is assured."

"Julien felt himself to be strong and resolute like a man who sees clearly into his own heart."

"It was the destiny of Napoleon - would it one day be his?"

"A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul."

"A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader’s soul."

"I will never demean myself to speak about my courage," said Julien, coldly, "it would be mean to do so. Let the world judge by the facts."

"A girl of sixteen had a complexion like a rose, and she put on rouge."

"To write a book is to risk being shot at in public."

"It seemed to Julian that there was far too much hair in his wig."

"Prestige! Sir, is it nothing? To be revered by fools, gaped at by children, envied by the rich and scorned by the wise."

"The suspicion that a rival is loved is painful enough already, but to have the love that he inspires in her confessed to one in detail by the woman whom one adores is without doubt the acme of suffering."

"Want of exercise was beginning to affect his health and to give him the weak and excitable character of a young German student."

"They can only touch the heart by bruising it."

"The first qualification for a historian is to have no ability to invent."

"L'amore come la febbre, nasce e si spegne senza che la volont vi abbia la pi piccola parte."

"I cannot provide the reality of events, I can only convey their shadow."

"An insane self-consciousness made him commit thousands of blunders."

"Evo ti cijelog mog političkog života: volim glazbu i slikarstvo, a dobra je knjiga za mene doživljaj."

"Kad netko vrši zločine, treba barem da ih vrši s užitkom; to je jedino dobro na njima i samo se time mogu donekle opravdati."

"Your water does not refresh me, said the thirsty genie. Yet it is the coolest well in all the Diar Bekir."

"Ljubav je kao groznica: rađa se i nestaje, a da čovjekova volja pri tome nema nikakvog udjela."

"Love is a beautiful flower, but we must be brave enough to pick her up from the edge of a precipice."

I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.

I've always said to my men friends, If you really care for me, darling, you will give me territory. Give me land, give me land.

Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.

When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.

I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold.

I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.

Innocence is one of the most exciting things in the world.

Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.

Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.

I'm an orphan. But the public has adopted me, and that has been my only family. The biggest family in the world is my fans.

The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it's going to go and where you'll wind up. Following the bend in the river and staying on your own path means that you are on the right track. Don't let anyone deter you from that.

My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.

I have a great need for affection from an audience. I don't know whether this is because I had such a tough life when I was a child.

I wouldn't bother to describe me. I'm Eartha Kitt.

Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty

I stayed on my own path and did not follow the herd. I made a way for myself.

I was given away. If your mother gives you away, you think everybody who comes into your life is going to give you away.

I am a mother and I know the feeling of having a baby come out of my gut.

Eartha Mae is very shy. She's scared to be seen, scared of rejection and even afraid of affection. Relationships can be rather uncomfortable for her. But, as Eartha Kitt, it's fine. I can accept and reject any time I want to. Do I ever reject? Not really. Although people think I do!

I've always been multi-cultural myself. I'm not black and I'm not white and I'm not pink and I'm not green. Eartha Kitt has no color, and that is how barriers are broken.

We're not thought of in terms of color because we are entertainers. We are there to entertain you not because we are black, white, pink, or green or gay or straight or because we are Catholic or Protestant.

My house was bugged. They couldn't find any information on me being a subversive because I happen to love America; I just don't like some of the things the government is doing.

Generally the whole entertainment business now is bland.