I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am.

During war we imprison the rights of man.

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

To seek out in a world full of joy the one thing that is certain to give you pain, and hug it to your bosom with all your strength; that's the greatest human happiness.

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

All the evil in the world is the fault of the self-styled pure in heart, a result of their eagerness to unearth secrets and expose them to the light of the sun.

Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?