God is on everyone's side... and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies.

It bothered me that whatever was waiting wasn't waiting for me

Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy - and that is life.

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.

Everything ends this way in France — everything. Weddings, christenings, duels, burials, swindlings, diplomatic affairs — everything is a pretext for a good dinner.

In your efforts to dazzle us your reasoning has gone awry. You know very well that love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.