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.

Necessity is often the spur to genius.

A woman's greatest charm consists in a constant appeal to a man's generosity by a gracious declaration of helplessness which fills him with pride and awakens the most magnificent feelings in his heart.

We do not wish success yet we obtain it. Always we find what we are not looking for. These words are too true not to become a proverb some day.

In France we can cauterize wounds but we do not yet know any remedy for the injuries inflicted by a bon mot.

At fifteen, neither beauty nor talent exist: a woman is all promise.

Who is to decide which is the grimmer sight: withered hearts, or empty skulls?