The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

Clothes are like a gloss that sets off everything; dresser were invented more to enhance physical advantages than to veil physical defects.

Like hunger, physical love is a necessity. But man's appetite for amour is never so regular or so sustained as his appetite for the delights of the table.

For young people always begin by loving exaggeration, that infirmity of noble minds.

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

All genuinely noble women prefer truth to falsehood. As the Russians with their Czar, they are unwilling to see their idol degraded; they want to be proud of the domination they accept.

Conventions are often more cruel than the law.