Princes enjoy themselves like children in the company of ordinary human beings.

I have always derived indescribable pleasure from leading a decent woman to the edge of sin and leaving her there to live between the temptation and the fear of that sin.

The English are crooked as a nation and honest as individuals. The contrary is true of the French, who are honest as a nation and crooked as individuals.

There have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable.

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries.

I feel sure that coups d'état would go much better if there were seats, boxes, and stalls so that one could see what was happening and not miss anything.