There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.

A naked woman is less dangerous than one who spreads her skirt skillfully to cover and exhibit everything at once.

When one of those skirt-bearing animals has set herself up above all by permitting herself to be deified, no power on earth can be as proud as she.

I can no longer think of anything but you. In spite of myself, my imagination carries me to you. I grasp you, I kiss you, I caress you, a thousand of the most amorous caresses take possession of me.

Reproach is usually honest, which is more than can be said of praise.

How fondly swindlers coddle their dupes! No mother is as caressing or thoughtful towards her adored child as a merchant in hypocrisy toward his milch-cow.

Whoever does not visit Paris regularly will never really be elegant.