Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

To man, faith; to woman, doubt. She bears the heavier burden. Does not woman invariably suffer for two?

The fashions we call English in Paris are French in London, and vice versa. Franco-British hostility vanishes when it comes to questions of words and clothing. God save the King is a tune composed by Lully for a chorus in a play by Racine.

Above all do not ask that justice be just: It is just, because it is justice. The idea of a just justice could have originated only in the brain of an anarchist.

Whereas scoundrels become reconciled after knifing one another, lovers break up irrevocably over a mere glance or word.

Marriageable girls as well as mothers understand the terms and perils of the lottery called wedlock. That is why women weep at a wedding and men smile.

Nothing is irredeemably ugly but sin.