Beauty is the greatest of human powers. Any power without counterbalance or control becomes autocratic and leads to abuse and to folly. Despotism in a government is insanity; in woman, fantasy.

Your modest savant smiles as he says to his admirers: What have I done? Nothing. Man does not invent a force, he directs it.

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.

Love is the only passion which suffers neither past nor future.

If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible.

The national budget is not a safe-deposit box. It is a spray can.

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.