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- LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.
- Henry Fielding (1707 - 1754)
- The prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the Italian painting of the martyr whose intestines are slowly being unwound from his body on a reel.
- Eduard Hanslick
- The prelude to Tristan and Isolde sounded as if a bomb had fallen into a large music factory and had thrown all the notes into confusion.
- The Tribune, Berlin, 1871
- The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
- Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939), (Attributed)
- A bore is a fellow talking who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours.
- Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
- Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- There are two million interesting people in New York and only seventy-eight in Los Angles.
- Neil Simon, in Playboy, Feb. 1979
- I can't mate in captivity.
- Gloria Steinem (1934 - ), on why she never married
- He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- It is well to write love letters. There are certain things for which it is not easy to ask your mistress face to face, like money for instance.
- Henri De Regnier
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