Once she has committed sin, there is nothing left for the Protestant woman, whereas the Catholic Church, hope of forgiveness makes a woman sublime.

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.

Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.

The virtues we acquire, which develop slowly within us, are the invisible links that bind each one of our existences to the others - existences which the spirit alone remembers, for Matter has no memory for spiritual things.

Paris, like every pretty woman, is subject to inexplicable whims of beauty and ugliness.

Women? In order to realize how far these charming creatures we idealize can carry their cruelty, we must see them among themselves!

What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?