The whole of Paris is a vast university of Art, Literature and Music... it is worth anyone's while to dally here for years. Paris is a seminar, a post-graduate course in everything.

If I have sometimes seemed to make fun of Woman, I assure you it has only been for the purpose of egging her on.

There is something about a poet which leads us to believe that he died, in many cases, as long as 20 years before his birth.

Beautiful things don't ask for attention.

You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.

Art – the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.