It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.

But I know human nature, my friend, and I tell you that, suddenly confronted with the possibility of being tried for murder, the most innocent person will lose his head and do the most absurd things.

To feel admiration for a man all through one's married life would, I think, be excessively tedious.

These little grey cells. It is up to them.

Words, mademoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.

Oh, I'm not afraid of death! What have I got to live for after all? I suppose you believe it's very wrong to kill a person who has injured you-even if they've taken away everything you had in the world?

Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first and mercy second.