Most women wish to feel that their spirit has been violated. Do they not, indeed, flatter themselves on never yielding save to force?

Man is no match for woman where mischief reigns.

The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.

True love is mixed up with birdlike squabbles, in which the disputants wound each other to the quick; but a quarrel without animus is, on the contrary, apiece of flattery to the dupe's conceit.

An ugly woman, married to King Henry VIII, would have defied the axe and daunted her husband's infidelities.

A wife is property that one acquires by contract, she is transferable, because possession of her requires title; in fact, woman is, so to speak, only man's appendage; consequently, slice, cut, clip her, you have all rights to her.

The secret of the nobility and beauty of great ladies lies in the art with which they can shed their veils. In such situations, they become like ancient statues. If they kept the merest scarf on, they would be lewd. Your bourgeois woman will always try to cover her nakedness.