I wished to see storms only on those coasts where they raged with most violence...

...the nose is generally the organ in which stupidity is most readily displayed.

You're as strong as the Pont Neuf. You'll live to bury us all!

The variations of the Duchess's judgment spared no one, except herhusband. He alone had never been in love with her, in him she hadalways felt an iron character, indifferent to the caprices that shedisplayed, contemptuous of her beauty, violent, of a will that wouldnever bend, the sort under which alone nervous people can findtranquillity.