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

Death is the next step after the pension-it's perpetual retirement without pay.

Half the human race can change its name and sometimes its nation without suffering — at least half! All women!

A man's name, title, and rank are artificial and impermanent; they do nothing to reveal what he really is, even to himself.

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.

I remember a time when a cabbage could sell itself by being a cabbage. Nowadays it’s no good being a cabbage – unless you have an agent and pay him a commission. Nothing is free anymore to sell itself or give itself away. These days, Countess, every cabbage has its pimp.

The man who discovers a woman's weakness is like the huntsman in the heat of the day who finds a cool spring. He wallows in it.