No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.

Any man, however blase or depraved, finds his love kindled anew when he sees himself threatened by a rival.

Stupidity assumes two forms, it speaks or is silent. Mute stupidity is bearable.

In Paris every man must have had a love affair. What woman wants something that no other woman ever wanted.

Great minds always tend to see virtue in misfortune.

I should like one of these days to be so well known, so popular, so celebrated, so famous, that it would permit me . . . to break wind in society, and society would think it a most natural thing.

The weakest being on earth can accomplish feats of strength. The frailest urchin will ring every doorbell on the street in arctic weather or hoist himself aloft to inscribe his name on a virgin monument.