What people don't realize is that intimacy has its conventions as well as ordinary social intercourse. There are three cardinal rules -- don't take somebody else's boyfriend unless you've been specifically invited to do so, don't take a drink without being asked, and keep a scrupulous accounting in financial matters.
~ W. H. Auden - [Intimacy]

Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
~ Henry Ward Beecher - [Intolerance]

Intimacies between women go backwards, beginning with revelations and ending up in small talk without loss of esteem.
~ Elizabeth Bowen - [Intimacy]

If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.
~ Lord Chesterfield - [Intimacy]

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
~ Aleister Crowley - [Intolerance]

Intolerance has been the curse of every age and state.
~ Samuel Davies - [Intolerance]

The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is so intolerant of each other.
~ Princess of Wales Diana - [Intolerance]

Intolerance is the ''Do Not Touch'' sign on something that cannot bear touching. We do not mind having our hair ruffled, but we will not tolerate any familiarity with the toupee which covers our baldness.
~ Eric Hoffer - [Intolerance]

I'm notorious for giving a bad interview. I'm an actor and I can't help but feel I'm boring when I'm on as myself.
~ Rock Hudson - [Interviews]

To really know someone is to have loved and hated him in turn.
~ Marcel Jouhandeau - [Intimacy]