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

The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, forgotten because it was properly done.

Sometimes at the best moments a single word or a look is enough.'

If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the soldier flings himself into the enemy's trenches, and if, once in this crater, he does not work like a miner on whom the walls of his gallery have fallen in; if he contemplates difficulties instead of overcoming them one by one ... he is simply looking on at the suicide of his own talent.

Modern reformers offer nebulous theories or write philanthropic novels. But your thief acts! He is as clear as a fact and as logical as a punch on the nose! And what a style he has!

We flew back home like swallows. 'Is it happiness that makes us so light?' Agathe asked.

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.