We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.

The Police and the Society of Jesus posses in common the virtue of never forsaking their enemies as friends.

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

The fashions we call English in Paris are French in London, and vice versa. Franco-British hostility vanishes when it comes to questions of words and clothing. God save the King is a tune composed by Lully for a chorus in a play by Racine.

Modesty is the conscience of the body.

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