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

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

There are two words for everything.

The trouble with marriage is that, while every woman is at heart a mother, every man is at heart a bachelor.

A horse's eye disquiets me: it has an expression of alarm that may at any moment be translated into action.

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

What kind of life a dog . . . acquires. I have sometimes tried to imagine by kneeling or lying full length on the ground and looking up. The world then becomes strangely incomplete; one sees little but legs.