Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.

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.

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.

In family life people almost always adjust themselves to misfortune. They make a bed of it and hope makes them accept that bed, however hard it is.

Among fifty percent of your married couples, the husband worries very little about what his wife is doing, provided she is doing all he wishes.

Finance, like time, devours its own children.

Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.