"On n'est pas tout à fait sincère sans être un peu ennuyeux." --Anatole France
(One is never really sincere without being a bit boring)

"Il ne faut jamais juger les gens sur leurs fréquentations: Judas, par exemple, avait des amis irréprochables." --Verlaine
(One must never judge people by the company they keep: Judas, for example, had irreproachable friends)

"Familiarity breeds contempt... and children." --Mark Twain

"Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example." --Mark Twain

"For most of history Anonymous was a woman." --Virginia Woolf

"Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say 'She doesn't have what it takes.' They will say 'Women don't have what it takes.' " --Claire Boothe Luce

"The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone else he can blame it on." --Robert Bloch

"On peut citer de mauvais vers, quand ils sont d'un grand Poète." -- Choderlos de Laclos
(You can cite bad poetry when it's from a big poet)