Italy is such a delightful place to live in if you happen to be a man. There one may enjoy that exquisite luxury of Socialism--that true Socialism which is based not on equality of income or character, but on the equality of manners. In the democracy of the caffè or the street the great question of our life has been solved, and the brotherhood of man is a reality. But it is accomplished at the expense of the sisterhood of women.

You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you.

All men are equal — all men, that is to say, who possess umbrellas.

How can I know what I think till I see what I say?

Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we're still no nearer to understanding one another.

One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.