He's got his dog trained so that it only does it on newspapers. The trouble is it does it when he's reading the blasted things.

Nothing is so discreet as a young face, for nothing is less mobile; it has the serenity, the surface smoothness, and the freshnessof a lake. There is no character in women's faces before the age of thirty.

In France we can cauterize wounds but we do not yet know any remedy for the injuries inflicted by a bon mot.

I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings.

The prodigality of millionaires is comparable only to their greed of gain. Let some whim or passion seize them and money is of no account. In fact these Croesuses find whims and passions harder to come by than gold.

No woman dares to refuse love without a motive, for nothing is more natural than to yield to love.

The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself, or he would cease to be human.