When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws. – Nicolas Chamfort
Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones. – Nicolas Chamfort
Love is more pleasant than marriage for the same reason that novels are more amusing than history. – Nicolas Chamfort
The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live. – Nicolas Chamfort
As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never converted to Catholicism, happily, but I did do one thing he did. That is, in middle age I moved to a seaside town and got into a right barney with the local powers-that-be. – Julie Burchill