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

Nothing can afford a woman greater pleasure than to hear tender words of love. The strictest, most devout woman will listen even if she must not answer.

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.

To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.

I am not deep, but I am very wide.

Stupidity assumes two forms, it speaks or is silent. Mute stupidity is bearable.

To get a traveling salesman drunk is the height of impossibility.