Americans are people who prefer the Continent to their own country, but refuse to learn its languages.

I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.

Women who make men talk better than they are accustomed to are always popular.

The art of life is to show your hand.

People in hotels strike no roots. The French phrase for chronic hotel guests even says so; they are called dwellers sur la branche.

In betting on races, there are two elements that are never lacking - hope as hope, and an incomplete recollection of the past.

One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.