Physically, a man is a man for a much longer time than a woman is a woman.

Women are as they are; they necessarily have the defects of their virtues.

We flew back home like swallows. 'Is it happiness that makes us so light?' Agathe asked.

A girl fresh from a boarding school may perhaps be a virgin but no! she is never chaste.

The sanctity of womanhood is incompatible with social liberty and social claims; and for a woman emancipation means corruption.

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.

The response man has the greatest difficulty in tolerating is pity, especially when he warrants it. Hatred is a tonic, it makes one live, it inspires vengeance, but pity kills, it makes our weakness weaker.