Marriage is a fierce battle before which the two partners ask heaven for its blessing, because loving each other is the most audacious of enterprises; the battle is not slow to start, and victory, that is to say freedom, goes to the cleverest.

Pure herring oil is the port wine of English cats

If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down.

To lese-majeste and contempt of court, we must add the crime of lese-million, that fearful indignity we visit on the rich when we expose the impotence of gold.

Incurable wounds are those inflicted by tongue and eye, by mockery and disdain.

In Paris every man must have had a love affair. What woman wants something that no other woman ever wanted.

What a thing of fantasy a woman may become after dusk.