For businessmen, the world is a bale of banknotes in circulation; for most young men, it is a woman; for some women, it is a man; and for others it may be a salon, a coterie, a part of town or a whole city.

A great love is a credit opened in favor of a power so consuming that the moment of bankruptcy must inevitably occur.

Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.

The Parisan, sauntering the streets idly, is as often a man in despair as a lounger.

The greater a man's talents, the more marked his idiosyncracies. Yet in the provinces originality is considered perilously close to lunacy.

In smart society men are jealous of one another after the fashion of women.

The woman you buy takes a great deal of money. The woman who gives herself to you takes all your money.