A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.

Virtue is always too much of a piece and too ignorant of those shades of feeling and of temperament that enable us to squint when we are placed in a false position.

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

The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of the art, for simpler methods. Simplicity never fails to charm.

A woman in the depths of despair proves so persuasive that she wrenches the forgiveness lurking deep in the heart of her lover. This is all the more true when that woman is young, pretty, and so decollete as to emerge from the neck of her gown in the costume of Eve.

The habits of life form the soul, and the soul forms the physical presence.

The day will dawn when Europe will believe only in the man who tramples her underfoot.