The waste, the insane freaks of these money men, the cynicism and egotism of their life... I'll show that they are not brilliant, not romantic, not delightful, not intelligent.

I never wanted to marry anyone like my father; I always preferred those more shoddy.

It's easy to make money. You put up the sign Bank and someone walks in and hands you his money. The façade is everything.

The French are a tremendously verbal race: they kill you with their assurances, their repetitions, their reasons, their platitudes, their formulae, their propositions, their solutions.

Behind the concept of woman's strangeness is the idea that a woman may do anything: she is below society, not bound by its law, unpredictable; an attribute given to every member of the league of the unfortunate.

I know your breed; all your fine officials debauch the younger girls who are afraid to lose their jobs: that's as old as Washington.

Humorists are always pessimists. They're reactionaries: because they see that every golden cloud has a black lining.