One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way.

All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?

There would be no sunshine in society if the born flatterers, I mean the so-called amiable people, did not bring it in with them.

Everything matters. Nothing's important.

The most unambiguous sign that a person holds men in low esteem is this, that he either acknowledges them merely as means to his ends or does not acknowledge them at all.

The perfect woman perpetrates literature as she perpetrates a small sin: as an experiment, in passing, glancing around to see whether anybody notices--and to make sure that somebody notices.

To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom.