Jordan

“I asked her whether, like Marguerite de Navarre, she had their hearts embalmed and hung at her girdle. She told me she didn’t, because none of them had had any hearts at all.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

“He who establishes his argument by noise and command, shows that his reason is weak.”
― Michel de Montaigne

“The thing I fear most is fear.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays