The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.

Clothes are like a gloss that sets off everything; dresser were invented more to enhance physical advantages than to veil physical defects.

When passion is not fed, it changes to need. At this juncture, marriage becomes a fixed idea in the mind of the bourgeois, being the only means whereby he can win a woman and appropriate her to his uses.

In painting, you can suddenly come upon something so huge that no-one can deal with it.

A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.

A woman in the depths of despair proves so persuasive that she wrenches the forgiveness lurking deep in the heart of her lover. This is all the more true when that woman is young, pretty, and so decollete as to emerge from the neck of her gown in the costume of Eve.

The man who enters his wife's dressing room is either a philosopher or a fool.