Foppery, being the chronic condition of women, is not so much noticed as it is when it breaks out on the person of the male bird.

But also remember: if you have any genuine feelings, hide them like treasure; never let anyone so much as suspect them, or you're lost. Instead of being the executioner, you'll be the victim. And if you ever fall in love, keep that absolutely secret! Never breathe a word until you're completely sure of the person to whom you open your heart. And to protect that love, even before you feel it, learn to despise the world.

The woman you buy takes a great deal of money. The woman who gives herself to you takes all your money.

I am not deep, but I am very wide.

I should like one of these days to be so well known, so popular, so celebrated, so famous, that it would permit me . . . to break wind in society, and society would think it a most natural thing.

Happiness lends poetic charms to woman, and dress adorns her like a delicate tinge of rouge.

The boor covers himself, the rich man or the fool adorns himself, and the elegant man gets dressed.