Death holds no horrors. It is simply the ultimate horror of life.

A woman is a creature who has discovered her own nature.

There's a kind of permission for war which can be given only by the world's mood and atmosphere, the feel of its pulse. It would be madness to undertake a war without that permission.

Faithful women are all alike, they think only of their fidelity, never of their husbands.

To win a woman in the first place you must please her, then undress her, and then somehow get her clothes back on her, finally, so that she will let you leave her, you've got to antagonise her.

An agreement is never reached in love. The life of a wife and husband who love each other is never at rest. Whether the marriage is true or false, the marriage portion is the same: elemental discord.

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made.